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UK: MP calls for review into police handling of journalists' data as Northern Ireland pair continue battle

"A Conservative MP has urged the Government to review police handling of journalists’ data as two investigative journalists in Northern Ireland fight to have their seized material deleted from police databases."
"A Conservative MP has urged the Government to review police handling of journalists’ data as two investigative journalists in Northern Ireland fight to have their seized material deleted from police databases."

See: MP calls for review into police handling of journalists’ data as Northern Ireland pair continue battle (Press Gazette, link):

“Trevor Birney (pictured left) and Barry McCaffrey (pictured centre) were arrested and had their homes raided last year over an allegation that they had stolen confidential material used in their 2017 film No Stone Unturned.”