Families of Loughinisland massacre victims to ‘battle on’

also ordered Durham constabulary and the PSNI to return all the material police unlawfully seized from them.Birney and McCaffrey were, respectively, the producer and the reporter on Alex Gibney’s award-winning documentary No Stone Unturned about the Loughinisland atrocity. The high court found that police had no basis for seeking warrants to search and arrest instead of simply issuing production orders. “It is unclear to us what offence was being investigated,” the chief justice said.

Outside the court, McCaffrey said police had seized “the work of 40 people in four separate production companies over 10 years”. He said the case had been “a farce” since the journalists had never had the original documents the police said they were seeking.

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