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Julia Hughes, a 21-year-old student at Dundee University, was working in a photography shop in Omagh for the summer when she was killed.

A statement from her twin brother Justin on behalf of the whole family is read out.

He says Julia was "small but a fire burned in her heart and she could be feisty when she needed to be".

She proved this by playing goalkeeper for the hockey team and was a member of the school debating team

He says, as twins, they were always looking out for each other and were each other's biggest allies.

He says Julia was "kind, funny and adventurous" and made friends easily and for life.

The inquiry has now resumed - a statement on behalf of Justin Hughes, the twin brother of Julia Hughes, is being read.

Denise says she seldom experienced any real bitterness in Omagh, that everyone mixed and there was always good natured banter.

She says people from both communities were very good to her family in the aftermath of the bombing.

However, she says her dad was "completely dedicated to his fight for justice for Lorraine" saying it "consumed his life" before he passed away in 2018.

The inquiry has now taken another break and will later hear a commemoration for Julia Hughes.

Denise's statement adds that the death hugely affected how the family operated.

"My younger brother had to live with his parents away in pursuit of justice for his sister. It was a life that changed drastically, buying newspapers. never missing a report - it's hard to put into words how this impacted them.

"We felt a great loss of such a beautiful person," she adds, saying she watched friends growing up and wondered what could have been for Lorraine.

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Denise says that when Lorraine was brought back to her parents' house to be waked her mother had to be given a sedative to help her cope.

"Lorraine's schoolfriends were young, so naturally they were visibly upset when they saw Lorraine," she says.

Other victims lived nearby and Denise says she remembers seeing "a long queue of people going from one house to the other".

Lorraine was buried wearing her mother's wedding dress.

She says the impact it has had on the family has been very traumatic, with her father and brother having suicidal thoughts and her father developing ulcers in his eyes from crying so much.

When the family had to view Lorraine's body in the morgue, Denise says her family had to leave the room.

Denise, her brother and father remained.

"We held Lorraine's hand, hugged her, touched her hair and told her how much we loved her," she says

She could see injuries from shrapnel, mostly around her face.

"I just remember us saying this should never have happened," she says.

There was a small pool of blood in Lorraine's eye and her father got a tissue to wipe it with.

He said to Lorraine: "This is all that I have of you now."

Lorraine's sister's statement now addresses the day of the bombing.

She says she heard the explosion and saw the plume of smoke above the town centre from their home.

They drove into town and, after being told they could get no further, parked the car and walked to the scene of the bombing.

"We started asking people if they saw Lorraine but everything was covered in debris," the statement says.

Later, the family went to the hospital and witnesses a "harrowing scene" but could not find Lorraine, before going to a local leisure centre.

"Eventually, we were asked for a picture and waited in the leisure centre for hours, praying she would be OK. We saw other families being told that their family member was dead and being taken to the morgue."

She says watching this scene was more distressing, as they were "holding on to hope".

Later, they were brought to the morgue to identify Lorraine's body.

"We were just completely numb. She lay on a stretcher, we were told not to touch her."

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A section of the statement from Lorraine's brother Colin is now being read out - he says Lorraine was good at arts and crafts and made him toys, some of which he still owns and prizes today.

He describes her as a "wee mother hen".

Her sister Denise says all the siblings were very close, and that the older siblings took Lorraine to nightclubs, not knowing her life would be cut short so young.

A lawyer for the family, Beth McMullan, reads a statement on behalf of Lorraine Wilson's mother Ann, her brother Colin and sister Denise Kerrigan.

She begins by saying Lorraine was an easy-going person, who loved putting others first and would never let an angry word cross her lips.

At the time of her death, she was volunteering at Omagh's Oxfam shop with Samantha McFarlane, who also died in the bombing.

The statement outlines how Lorraine loved cooking family meals and was a home bird. She attended Omagh High School and aspired to be an air hostess or chef. She wanted to travel the world and loved hockey and horse riding.

We're due to resume our live updates from 2pm, as the inquiry hears the commemoration of 15-year-old Lorraine Wilson by Ann Wilson, Denise Kerrigan and Colin Wilson.

After that the inquiry is due to hear the commemoration of 21-year-old student Julia Hughes.

You can watch live by hitting the play button at the top of this page.

Inquiry chair Lord Turnbull sums up Mr Skelton's remarks and adds: "I am very grateful for Kevin providing this statement on behalf of his wife - he painted a picture that his wife was at the centre of his family home with his four children."

He says the testimony outlined the "harrowing and horror events of the day", from Mr Skelton finding his wife's body and then being left to look after the children.

Lord Turnbull then says this concludes the commemoration of Philomena Skelton - the inquiry is now taking a lunch break and will resume at about 2pm.

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Mr Skelton says he just wants to get on with "what bit of life I have left".

He says, including stepchildren, he now has eight children.

Pointing to his daughter Gabby, he says if it hadn't been for the bomb "she wouldn't be here".

"Maybe that's my angel," he says.

"Out of the evil comes something good."

Mr Skelton says that many politicians - including Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Bertie Ahern - came to Omagh and promised no stone would be left unturned.

"But all stones were left unturned. I always was convinced nobody would face responsibility for this and I was right."

He says he felt the criminal trials "would fall apart and they did, they walked".

"Some families took a civil action but these boys don't care, if they were going to put a bomb in a busy street they wouldn't care about court."

The Real IRA admitted carrying out the attack but no-one was ever convicted in a criminal court.

In 2009, a judge ruled that four men were liable in a civil case.

The four - Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly - were ordered to pay £1.6m but appeals delayed the compensation process.

Mr Skelton continues by questioning why the Army was not "brought in to clear the street" when the alert was declared.

"I nearly met more secretary of states than I've had hot dinners and not one of them has done anything for us," he says, adding that he also doesn't see the Irish government "playing ball with the inquiry".

"The bomb was built from the south (the Republic of Ireland), the people who built the bomb are from the south, the car was stolen from the south," he adds.

Mr Skelton says, after the funeral, he had to carry on for the children and you had to "look after yourself".

He says nobody came to see if he needed help.

"God knows at the time, and for a long time afterwards, we could have done with help", he says.

"I wasn't much of a father for a number of years, I'll be honest about it."

Philomena Skelton's funeral saw hundreds of people attend "from up and down the country", he says.

"She would have ran and hid away if she had of woken up - she wasn't that kind of person," he says.

He adds he has a clear memory of her wake, that he stood for 14 hours greeting people "at the bottom of the garden" resulting in soreness from shaking so many hands.

Mr Skelton adds: "People arrived from everywhere, There was a lot of high flyers at the funeral but the day she left in that coffin everyone else left as well - I have never seen anything like it.

"I remember saying to my son if she woke up she would hide in a mouse hole. She wouldn't have wanted all them people there. It does not matter how many people are at a funeral you always know who didn't come," he adds.

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Mr Skelton says he was sure his daughter Shauna had also been killed, at one point saying he believed she was buried underneath her mother.

He says that people could not "calm him down" and a friend took him to a nearby pub and got him a double brandy.

When he came out, someone - and he doesn't know who it was to this day - shouted over to him: "Do you have a wee ginger haired girl?"

"The words I said back to him were 'I had,'" he says.

The man told him that Shauna was in the hospital and this was the first time he knew she was alive.

When he got to the hospital she was being put on a helicopter to be taken to Altnagelvin Hospital.

At this stage he didn't know where his other two daughters were, saying everything was complete blur.

He identified his wife at an Army camp the next day.

Mr Skelton says he was in another shop when the bomb went off - he recalls the sensation of the bomb "sucking out" the shop front.

He says he can't get out of his head the smell of burning flesh and the cries of people.

Mr Skelton says the whole family could have been wiped out and that he didn't know if his daughters had also been killed and they didn't know if he was alive.

He remembers seeing the impact of the bomb, of shops "folding" and says he can't understand how so many people survived it.

Mr Skelton now goes back to the day of the bombing.

He says his wife and children were in the shops when a traffic warden came in and alerted them to a bomb scare.

He adds that he moved his car and they carried on shopping in an area not affected by the alert. He says he didn't believe there was a bomb and that he was fed up shopping.

He tells the inquiry that one of his daughters pointed to the Vauxhall Cavalier which was carrying the bomb.

"That's something I think about often," Mr Skelton adds.

He says he later found Mrs Skelton face down in the rubble and that he knew shortly after that she had died.

Mr Skelton says his wife took in a Romanian orphan for a holiday in 1997, a nine-year-old girl called Andrea.

He says the child returned on 1998 and left the Sunday before the Omagh bomb.

Mr Skelton says it was something Mena did out of "pure kindness".

He adds that he's maintained the family's commitment to the charity in the years since the bombing to maintain a connection to her, with Andrea returning in 1999.

He also travelled to the orphanage in Romania with his daughter in 2000. Mr Skelton says he got a study visa for Andrea and later married the child's mother in 2005.

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Kevin Skelton goes on to recall the day of the bombing.

He says he cancelled his usual work because of a sore back and that a Gaelic football match he was due to referee was cancelled, so the family went into town to shop for school uniforms.

Referring to his wife as Mena, he says she wanted to get various things for back to school and that their three daughters were with them.

Mr Skelton says he went into a travel agents to price flights to Romania as "we had taken an orphan (from Romania) for a holiday every year".

"Mena had suggested it, I thought she was mad, but that was the type of her."