Lecturer death case under review

Irish police will review their probe into the death of a Londonderry woman.

The body of Mary Reid, a lecturer in Women's Studies at the North West Institute, was found on a beach at the Isle of Doagh in Donegal in 2002.

An inquest heard she had drowned, but her family have contested that. A chief superintendent is to review the case.

Ms Reid, a former Irish Republican Socialist Party member, was arrested in Paris, France, in 1982 on terror charges, but was cleared on appeal.

She and two others were arrested in the French capital.

The French Army had alleged they found a 'death list', three pistols and 500 grammes of explosives in the three's suburban Paris apartment.

Despite protesting their innocence, the three were tried in and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. They were released nine months later on appeal in 1983.

Agents for the French government subsequently admitted they had planted the explosives.

The Donegal-born academic died on 29 January 2002 while walking her two dogs on a stretch of beach at Legacurry.