The arrests of the journalists in 2018 were intended as a 'disruption' operation the [Durham Police and the PSNI] hoped would cause the journalists to contact and confirm the identity of a confidential source;
Birney and McCaffrey were exonerated in 2019 by the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Declan Morgan, in a judicial review, who found that Durham Constabulary and the PSNI unlawfully used search warrants in an attempt to identify Birney and McCaffrey's sources.
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