Rioting before Lyra McKee death was to ‘put on a show for MTV camera crew’, court hears

Last week, the court was played MTV footage of masked men attacking police Land Rovers with petrol bombs in the hours before Ms McKee was shot

The New IRA claimed responsibility for the author’s murder. File Picture: PA

Rioting in Derry on the night journalist Lyra McKee was murdered was orchestrated to “put on a show” for an MTV camera crew, Belfast Crown Court has heard.

A prosecution barrister told the murder trial that masked men who threw petrol bombs at police were “entirely at ease” with being filmed, suggesting their presence had been authorised by those behind the violence.