The corporation’s lawyers are to write to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal about the alleged surveillance of former reporter Vincent Kearney.
The BBC has instructed lawyers to contact a specialist tribunal over claims one of its investigative reporters was spied on by police.
The claims emerged as part of a case already being examined by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal into allegations two other investigative reporters working in Northern Ireland have been subject to unlawful covert surveillance by police.In 2018, Barry McCaffrey and Trevor 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.
The tribunal is also probing two other instances of police surveillance against Mr McCaffrey in 2013 and 2011. It sat for a brief hearing in February and is due to resume its work later in the year. “We think that serious issues of public interest are involved, including in relation to the adverse effects that surveillance may have on journalistic investigations and freedoms.”
Ombudsman Al Hutchinson rejected claims his investigations lacked independence. He resigned in January 2012.
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