Watched By MI5 - Spotlight

BBC One Northern Ireland HD

10:40 PM to 11:20 PM

Thursday 30 July

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MI5 and police spent years snooping through the phone records of journalist Vincent Kearney, trying to find out who was giving him sensitive information. After those security services admitted the surveillance was unlawful and paid damages, Julian O'Neill investigates what they were up to, why they were in breach of the law and, crucially, why this case of state agencies spying on a journalist may not be an isolated example