9 September 1999 Edition
Journalist to fight Court ruling
Sunday Tribune Northern Editor Ed Moloney has vowed to fight the ruling handed down last Thursday, 2 September in an Antrim Court that he has seven days to hand over notes.
The material in question is his original 1990 notes from interviews with loyalist William Stobie - arrested earlier in the year for his part in the 1989 murder of solicitor Pat Finucane - or risk an unlimited fine or up to five years in prison.
Speaking after the ruling, Moloney vowed to challenge the decision and questioned the actions of the Stevens Inquiry investigating the 1989 murder. He said: ``I must ask the question - why are the Stevens Inquiry behaving like this? Are they trying to punish me for publishing these statements [of RUC collusion].''
Meanwhile, local paper the North Belfast News reports that Stobie now claims he embellished his account in the 1990 interviews with Moloney and former Sunday Life reporter Neil Mulholland. It further reports that the Stevens Inquiry doesn't even believe Stobie's account of the Finucane killing.
The material in question is his original 1990 notes from interviews with loyalist William Stobie - arrested earlier in the year for his part in the 1989 murder of solicitor Pat Finucane - or risk an unlimited fine or up to five years in prison.
Speaking after the ruling, Moloney vowed to challenge the decision and questioned the actions of the Stevens Inquiry investigating the 1989 murder. He said: ``I must ask the question - why are the Stevens Inquiry behaving like this? Are they trying to punish me for publishing these statements [of RUC collusion].''
Meanwhile, local paper the North Belfast News reports that Stobie now claims he embellished his account in the 1990 interviews with Moloney and former Sunday Life reporter Neil Mulholland. It further reports that the Stevens Inquiry doesn't even believe Stobie's account of the Finucane killing.