Police pay damages to Sunday Times journalist

The police have paid "an unprecedented sum of damages" to the Irish editor of the Sunday Times and his wife after the couple launched legal action following a raid on their home. The case against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was taken by Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston, and was settled out of court over the weekend. The couple's lawyer told a Belfast high court judge that the PSNI had agreed to pay damages and court costs. Clarke said that during the raid on their Ballymena home in April 2003, the police "tore up the rule book and rode roughshod over the limited protection afforded to journalists". (Via Belfast Today)