{"id":531331,"date":"2026-07-03T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:44:08","slug":"three-men-found-not-guilty-of-lyra-mckee-murder-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531331\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men found not guilty of Lyra McKee murder in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been found not guilty of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ms Justice Smyth is continuing to deliver her judgment in other charges in the long-running non-jury trial at Belfast Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>Paul McIntyre, 58, of Kells Walk in Derry, Peter Cavanagh, 38, of Mary Street, and Jordan Gareth Devine, 25, of Bishop Street, faced a joint enterprise murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>Ms McKee, 29, died after being hit by a bullet as she stood close to police vehicles while observing disturbances in the Creggan area of Derry on April 18 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/001eaa6a-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nLyra McKee died as she covered unrest in Derry in April, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Several petrol bombs had been directed at police and a car was set on fire during chaotic scenes which culminated in four shots being fired towards officers.<\/p>\n<p>The New IRA claimed responsibility for the death of Ms McKee.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution&#8217;s case was that the three men had accompanied a lone gunman on the night Ms McKee was killed and encouraged or assisted him.<\/p>\n<p>But defence barristers have criticised the standard of the evidence in the case, which was almost entirely circumstantial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been found not guilty of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-531331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}