Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were detained last August when homes, office raided
Information on the frequency of contact between journalists and staff at Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman’s Office is being withheld to protect the integrity of an ongoing investigation into the suspected theft of confidential documents from the watchdog, the High Court in Belfast has heard.
Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were involved in making a film about the killing of six Catholic men at Loughinisland in June 1994. UVF gunmen opened fire in a pub in the Co Down village as the men watched a World Cup match. Peter Coll QC, for the police forces, contended that the editing had been kept to an “irreducible minimum” in three main areas, with a gist of the information provided.
He claimed that providing the information now would undermine the effectiveness of any future interviews carried out during the inquiry while the legal challenge takes place. Stressing that no reasons were given for the decision to grant the warrants, he added: “We have absolutely no idea what influenced the judge.”
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