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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Claudia Savage

Court rejects application to stop trial for murder of journalist Lyra McKee

Lyra McKee (Chiho Tang/Oranga Creative/PA) - (PA Media)

An application to halt the trial of three men for the murder of journalist Lyra McKee has been rejected by a court in Belfast.

Her Honour Judge Patricia Smyth said that despite issues raised with evidence, including “deeply disturbing behaviour by an experienced police officer”, she did “not consider that there are no circumstances in which I could properly convict any of the defendants charged with murder”.

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