{"id":23992,"date":"2025-04-16T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23992\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:58:09","slug":"duncan-mccausland-and-mark-gilmore-more-than-two-years-after-admitting-illegal-spying-psni-is-still-refusing-to-pay-what-it-promised-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23992\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan McCausland and Mark Gilmore: More than two years after admitting illegal spying, PSNI is still refusing to pay what it promised to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Lawyers dismissed \u2018derisory offers\u2019 to settle cost of case as interest mounts on \u00a3500k-plus cost\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The PSNI illegally spied on Duncan McCausland, left, and Mark Gilmore - but denied that until forced to admit it\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bt_kscott_215950.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The PSNI illegally spied on Duncan McCausland, left, and Mark Gilmore &#8211; but denied that until forced to admit it<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than two years after admitting it broke the law by spying on two senior police officers, the PSNI is still refusing to pay their legal bill \u2014 despite promising a judge at the time that it would do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The final bill is understood to have soared due to compound interest which is accumulating the longer the police delay, meaning that it is likely to end up costing taxpayers far more than necessary for a case for which the PSNI ultimately admitted it had no viable defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers dismissed \u2018derisory offers\u2019 to settle cost of case as interest mounts on \u00a3500k-plus cost The PSNI illegally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[14925,1144,1610,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-23992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-of-justice","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","11":"tag-sam-mcbride","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114346112177572684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}