Police and MI5 subjected a former BBC journalist to a “long and consistent campaign of unlawful interference” by obtaining communications data from his mobile phone, a tribunal has heard. The surveillance was targeted at Vincent Kearney, who was the BBC’s Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent, and occurred over an eight-year period as authorities sought to identify his sources. Details of the monitoring by MI5 and police forces in Northern Ireland and England have been revealed in a case the BBC and Kearney have brought before the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT), a special court that investigates complaints against the UK’s spy
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