Loughinisland massacre

Police chiefs are in breach of a legal duty to carry out an effective investigation into a fatal loyalist gun attack on a village pub 30 years ago, the High Court ruled today.

THE PSNI is investigating after it presented blank tapes to journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey in response to a High Court order to provide recordings of the pair’s police interviews.

A TV drama is to be made about the unlawful arrest of journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney over their documentary on the Loughinisland massacre.

THE final bill for the unlawful arrests of two investigative journalists involved in making a Troubles documentary could cost the PSNI more than £3 million. 

WESTMINSTER MPs have submitted a motion calling on the PSNI to return all materials seized in an abandoned probe into two journalists over a documentary on the Loughinisland massacre.

Jamie Bryson has written to Simon Byrne to ask why he had not received an apology similar to that issued to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey.

The PSNI Chief Constable has apologised to Loughinisland journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney after the Court of Appeal ruled that police had wrongly obtained warrants to search their homes and offices.

The Appeal Court ruling published yesterday, on the 26th anniversary of the Louginisland killings, is one of a number of protracted cases linked to the atrocity.

A FORMER Downing Street spin doctor is set to replace the SDLP's Claire Hanna in the Stormont assembly.

TWO Belfast journalists whose homes were raided are to sue police for wrongful imprisonment, the High Court has heard.