The corporation’s lawyers are to write to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal about the alleged surveillance of former reporter Vincent Kearney.
The BBC’s Spotlight programme examined allegations that the independence of the office of the Police Ombudsman had been compromised
Mr Kearney, who is the current Northern Editor at RTE, said he is determined to find out what happened. In 2019, Mr Birney and Mr McCaffrey lodged a complaint with the IPT asking it to establish whether there had been any unlawful surveillance of them. A BBC spokesperson said: “We have instructed lawyers to write to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal about the alleged PSNI surveillance of telephone data linked to the work of Vincent Kearney during his employment with the BBC, in connection with a BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme broadcast in 2011.
Ombudsman Al Hutchinson rejected claims his investigations lacked independence. He resigned in January 2012.
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