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Police officer alleged to have overseen NI spying on journalist ordered to give evidence in person
Investigative journalists Trevor Birney (left) and Barry McCaffrey, with Emma Rogan (centre), who's father Adrian Rogan was killed in the Loughinisland massacre, standing outside Castlereagh Police Station after a haul of journalistic material unlawfully seized by police following the making of the Loughinisland documentary, No Stone Unturned, June 4, 2019

A FORMER senior police officer alleged to have overseen spying on journalists in Northern Ireland must give evidence in person, a court has ruled.

The Investigatory Power Tribunal, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, is considering the cases of Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey.

The journalists worked on the No Stone Unturned documentary film about 1994’s Lochinisland massacre.

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