Journalists arrive at court for hearing into claims they were spied on by police

Journalists arrive at court for hearing into claims they were spied on by police

Avril Kinsella

Journalists Trevor Birney (left) and Barry McCaffrey have arrived at court in London for a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal into allegations state authorities were involved in unlawful covert surveillance of their work.

In 2018, McCaffrey and Birney were controversially arrested as part of a police investigation into the alleged leaking of a confidential document that appeared in a documentary they made on a Troubles massacre as Loughinisland.