Rioting in Londonderry on the night journalist Lyra McKee was murdered was orchestrated to "put on a show" for an MTV camera crew, Belfast Crown Court has heard. A prosecution barrister told the murder trial that masked men who threw petrol bombs at police were "entirely at ease" with being filmed, suggesting their presence had been authorised by those behind the violence.
READ MORE: MTV documentary footage filmed on day Lyra McKee was shot shown at opening of murder trialThey are: Joseph Patrick Barr, 36, of Sandringham Drive, Derry; Jude Forest Coffey, 26, of Gartan Square, Derry; William Patrick Elliott, 57, of Ballymagowan Gardens, Derry; Joseph Anthony Campbell, 23, of Gosheden Cottages, Derry; Patrick Anthony Gallagher, 32, of John Field Place, Derry; Christopher Joseph Gillen, 43, of Balbane Pass, Derry; and Kieran George McCool, 55, of Ballymagowan...
Last week, the court was played MTV footage of masked men attacking police Land Rovers with petrol bombs in the hours before Ms McKee was shot. On Tuesday morning, prosecuting barrister David McDowell turned his attention to the defendants that were not masked during the violence. He said this suggested the masked men knew in advance of the plans to film or that the presence of Coffey and Gallagher had endorsed the filming. Mr McDowell added: "The reaction of the masked men would have been quite different had an unauthorised camera crew attended the rioting, unannounced."
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McKee trial hears rioting 'organised' for MTV film crewThe trial of three men accused of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee has heard that people living close to where she was murdered claimed rioting that accompanied the gun attack had been organised for a documentary crew.
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