{"id":1351,"date":"2026-07-23T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:30:14","slug":"mi5-ordered-to-pay-compensation-to-vincent-kearney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"MI5 \u200bordered to pay compensation to Vincent Kearney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/phone-data.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"MI5 \u200bordered to pay compensation to Vincent Kearney\" title=\"MI5 \u200bordered to pay compensation to Vincent Kearney\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0Northern Ireland police and Britain\u2019s domestic intelligence agency MI5 were on Thursday \u200bordered to pay compensation to a former \u200cBBC journalist Vincent Kearney for unlawfully obtaining his phone records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vincent Kearney, who now works for Irish broadcaster RTE, \u200btook legal action against the Police \u200bService of Northern Ireland and MI5 based \u2060on disclosure from a separate case brought by \u200btwo Belfast journalists who were put under surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bInvestigatory Powers Tribunal in London awarded Kearney compensation of \u00a310,000 ($13,326) each from the PSNI and MI5 for what \u200bit described as disproportionate interferences with Kearney\u2019s \u200bprivacy rights and journalistic sources.<\/p>\n<p>Kearney and the BBC, which \u200cwas \u2060a claimant alongside Kearney, welcomed the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said in a statement that he accepted the ruling and apologised \u200bto Kearney. \u200bHe added \u2060that \u201csignificant changes to practice and policy have already been made since \u200bthese issues occurred\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Boutcher previously commissioned an independent \u200breview \u2060which last year found that the PSNI used journalists\u2019 phone numbers to check for information \u2060leaks \u200bby officers or staff, \u200bbut did not carry out \u201cwidespread or systemic\u201d improper surveillance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Northern Ireland police and Britain\u2019s domestic intelligence agency MI5 were on Thursday \u200bordered to pay compensation to a former \u200cBBC journalist Vincent Kearney for unlawfully obtaining his phone records. Vincent Kearney, who now works for Irish broadcaster RTE, \u200btook legal action against the Police \u200bService of Northern Ireland and MI5 based \u2060on disclosure from a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/phone-data.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2688,2690,2686,2687,2427,2689],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-compensation","tag-kearney","tag-mi5","tag-ordered","tag-pay","tag-vincent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}