Lyra McKee murder: Woman's house 'wrongly targeted' in PSNI raid
A police raid on Ms McGowan's home lasted from 21:00 BST until just before midnight on Easter Thursday.Nothing was found, and she said police actions have cast a cloud over her reputation.
A dissident republican parade had been planned by the political party Saoradh, which has the support of the New IRA, for the Creggan area on Easter Monday. The police declined a BBC request for an interview or to answer specific questions about the search, but defended their actions. A friend of Ms McGowan's, Paul McDaid, accused the police of heightening tensions in the run up to the planned dissident republican Easter commemoration:
"We have to underline that no matter what the PSNI did, no matter what anybody did, it does not excuse what Saoradh and their associates did to Lyra McKee," he said.
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