Three men were acquitted on Friday of the 2019 killing of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee.
McKee, 29, was killed while reporting on clashes between police and the New IRA, a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army. The clashes occurred in Londonderry, also known as Derry.
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland and political leaders from Northern Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic communities attended her funeral. As a result of her death, politicians revived Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, which had collapsed in 2017.
What do we know about the verdict?
Justice Patricia Smyth of the Belfast Crown Court said the verdict would not bring "little if any comfort or relief" to McKee's family, but said circumstantial evidence was not sufficient to merit a conviction.
