PSNI fear IRA have confidential documents

It has emerged tonight that senior civil servants and police chiefs in the North fear confidential letters to ministers may have been photocopied and handed to the IRA.

It has emerged tonight that senior civil servants and police chiefs in the North fear confidential letters to ministers may have been photocopied and handed to the IRA.

Police refused to comment, but according to authoritative security sources in Belfast tonight, this is one line of inquiry being followed by detectives questioning three men and one woman after raids this morning on Sinn Fein offices in Stormont.

Sources also said that criminal charges would follow.

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