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One of the men charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee has been granted permission to attend the Bloody Sunday commemoration march next week.
Peter Gearoid Cavanagh (33) of Elmwood Terrace in Derry is charged with the murder of Lyra McKee on April 18 2019 as well as rioting on the same date.
After he was returned for trial to Belfast Crown Court an application was made to vary his bail to allow him to enter Creggan Estate to attend the Bloody Sunday march on January 29.
Defence counsel Stephen Mooney said that the defendant was also seeking to have his curfew removed.
He said his client had severed his links with the dissident republican group Saoradh and added that police objections that Cavanagh had taken part in dissident republican white line protests were mistaken.
A prosecution barrister said there were no objections to the application for the march on condition Cavanagh enters Creggan on 2.15pm and has left the area by 3.30pm.
During the march he is not to have any 'flag, banner or poster'.
As regards the application to remove the curfew the barrister said that one officer now said that the identification of Cavanagh at one of the protests was mistaken but the other officer was standing by his identification.
District Judge Ted Magill ruled that Cavanagh could attend the Bloody Sunday march but ruled against removing the curfew.
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