PSNI and Met police unlawfully spied on two journalists, tribunal finds

PSNI ordered to pay damages to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey who worked on No Stone Unturned

The Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Metropolitan police unlawfully spied on two investigative journalists, a tribunal has found.

The investigatory powers tribunal ruled that the PSNI must pay £4,000 each in damages to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who were arrested in 2018 after they produced No Stone Unturned, an award-winning documentary about a notorious massacre during the Troubles.

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