Journalist arrested over leak vows he will not be ‘intimidated’

A JOURNALIST arrested for publishing a leaked report said yesterday he would not be intimidated from exposing the truth.

Crime reporter Mick McCaffrey, formerly of the Evening Herald, said the newspaper had only been told by the Department of Justice they were breaking the law in publishing the report after they had finished the story.

Last August, Mr McCaffrey revealed extensive details from a draft report into the prosecution — wrongly — of the late Dean Lyons for a double murder in Dublin in 1997.