Ep. 36 What does justice look like? Part 2
The Tip Off
The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After working for years to put together the pieces of how a massacre had gone unsolved, Barry and his team publish their findings. But that is far from the end of the story…
This is how Barry got sucked into the story himself - after being arrested and taken to court, all for trying to report the truth.
Read all about it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48504287
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| 0:00.0 | What happens when you work for years to uncover a forgotten massacre? |
| 0:09.0 | Toil to reveal the truth, only to become the story yourself. |
| 0:14.0 | In the last episode of the Tip-Off, we heard from journalist Barry McCaffrey. He had worked for years |
| 0:25.0 | to put together the pieces of how a notorious mass murder had gone unsolved in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:31.4 | Working with film producer Trevor Bernie and director Alex Gibney, the journalist had told |
| 0:36.7 | a story of incompetence, collusion and cover-ups. |
| 0:41.2 | It had been a journey fraught with twists and dangers, but the release of the resulting documentary film was far from the end of the story. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Mayf McClendigan. This is the tip-off. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you. I'm Maitlandigan. This is the tip-off. I'll never forget their words. We will leave no stone unturned, and those words ring in my ear to this day, because I don't think they've ever left of the stone. Never mind turned it. |
| 1:09.7 | It's November 2015 and Barry is still reeling |
| 1:12.5 | from the adrenaline of finally seeing the film No Stone Unturned released. The film laid out |
| 1:18.4 | some worrying evidence that the Northern Irish police force had colluded with terrorists, |
| 1:23.6 | letting the man suspected of killing six innocent men get away scot-free. |
| 1:28.6 | The film had a great reception, but the buzz was short-lived. |
| 1:32.8 | Almost immediately after the film is heard, |
| 1:35.6 | the police released a statement to say that they believed that lives had been put at risk |
| 1:42.8 | and that the document that we used, they were going to investigate |
| 1:47.1 | whether it had been stolen or there was a breach of the Official Secrets Act or data protection. |
| 1:53.4 | Now this was strange. The film had laid out all kinds of ways the police in Northern Ireland |
| 1:58.0 | had failed to investigate the murders of six men. Now in the wake of Barion Coe's findings, the police service in Northern Ireland had failed to investigate the murders of six men. |
| 2:05.6 | Now in the wake of Barion Coe's findings, the police service of Northern Ireland did ask another force from Durham, England, to look into whether there had been any wrongdoing. |
| 2:10.7 | But they did not seem to be looking into the murders. Despite all the evidence in the film, |
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