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Justice for Lyra McKee and Martin O’Hagan!
This is the photo that Lyra McKee supplied to Forbes magazine when it declared her one of its 30 under 30 in media in 2016.
A MAN has been convicted of possessing the gun used to murder journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019. Niall Shannon admitted possessing a pistol and ammunition with intent to enable another to endanger life. In mid-September he was sentenced to seven years in prison. DNA evidence linked him to the gun. Lyra was shot dead while observing a riot in Derry on 18 April 2019.
The eleventh anniversary of the murder of Sunday World investigative reporter Martin O'Hagan - shot dead in 2001 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland by the Ulster Volunteer Force - was marked on 23 September. NUJ Assistant General Secretary Séamus Dooley called for the UK and Irish governments to give immediate priority into an independent investigation into this killing. Martin was Secretary of the NUJ Belfast and District Branch at the time of his death.
Séamus also called for the publication of the Police Ombudsman's report into the Police Service of Northern Ireland investigation of the killing.
No-one has ever been brought to justice for killing Martin. A Panorama investigation in 2015 alleged state and paramilitary collusion in covering up the case.
RIP Lyra McKee April 2019