At the outset I wish to record my pleasure that a Journalist and Author of your status has taken an interest in our family tragedy.
In putting together background information I have taken the following from my files, they are numbered in sequence with comments and explanations.
Newspaper article published by the Irish News in 1997. It is an interview with Cormac Boomer on the second anniversary of Desmond Boomers disappearance
Article by Franco Aloisio, published in the Malta Independent Sunday October 12th 1997. reporting a connection between Peter Jones murder and Libya
Photographs of the wreckage found in the Gulf of Gebas. The photographs were taken by Cormac Boomer, father of Desmond Boomer.
A letter from Cormac Boomer to Interpol detailing on-going search for Desmond or at least some factual information regarding the nature of the tragedy which befell him and his fellow passengers on 2nd/3rd of December, 1995
It was an emotional moment for the people who lost their husbands, fathers and sons in the tragedy and the viewing was held privately at their request