The journalist was observing rioting in the Creggan estate in Derry in April 2019 when she was shot.
Journalist Lyra McKee was 29 when she died after being struck by a bullet while observing rioting in Creggan in April 2019
Ms McKee had been watching a riot in the Creggan estate in Londonderry in April 2019, when she was shot and killed.Jordan Devine, Peter Cavanagh and Paul McIntyre are all accused of the murder of Lyra McKee He said a large number of young people were in the area and he felt the police operation “wouldn’t have been welcomed”.
When asked how the people standing on the footpath at Fanad Drive reacted to petrol bombs being thrown, Mr Doyle told the court: "I think that most people felt they were probably further enough away and anything that was thrown was directed at police vehicles so I don't necessarily think anyone felt particularly a threat."
"Once I heard the scream I moved up to where Lyra, who I didn't know, was lying between the front and back wheels of a Land Rover. She was lying just between those two wheels”.Mr Doyle added: “I got up beside Sara, I noticed... in first view I thought it was a child because she was so small and she was not necessarily curled up but not stretched out across the length of the Land Rover. Sara was very upset of course.
The officer who opened the door, Mr Doyle said, “immediately understood what the situation was, that someone had been hurt”.
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