Belfast-based Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey won landmark victory that PSNI’s surveillance was unlawful
Two investigative journalists who a tribunal ruled were unlawfully spied on by police have said that they are in “no doubt” reporters continue to be targeted in the UK.
In a landmark judgment, the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) found last week that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Metropolitan police unlawfully carried out covert surveillance on Belfast-based journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey.