s body in the hotel room where she was murdered. The director of the Mauritian Sunday Times, General Imran Hosany, said the motive was not sensationalism but was "to recall that such a heinous crime remained unpunished". Michaela McAreavey, 27, from County Tyrone, was murdered in her room at the Legends hotel in Mauritius in January 2011. She had been on her honeymoon with her husband, John. The photographs...
s Sunday Times - which has nothing to do with the British title of the same name - ran a front page photograph yesterday of the woman's body. Several other images were published on inside pages, some of which showed Mrs McAreavey's injuries. They were crime scene photographs of the hotel room where she was strangled to death in January last year while on her honeymoon with her husband John. Last week...
s dead body The Irish government is to make a formal complaint to Mauritius after a newspaper published photographs of the body of the murdered schoolteacher Michaela McAreavey. Her family said the publication of the photos, shot at the crime scene in the Legends hotel in Mauritius, was "reprehensible and repugnant". McAreavey was the daughter of Mickey Harte, one of the most successful Gaelic football...
s supreme court found the two hotel workers innocent after just two hours of deliberation. Both verdicts were unanimous. Members of the McAreavey family walked straight out of court when the foreman of the jury made the verdicts known. Both accused broke down in tears in the dock while relatives jumped to their feet cheering wildly. There were chaotic scenes as the two acquitted men walked out of the...
Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Moneea deny killing McAreavey, 27, during her honeymoon in Mauritius The jury in the trial of two hotel workers accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey, a Northern Irish woman on honeymoon in Mauritius, have retired to consider their verdict. Avinash Treebhoowoon, 32, and Sandip Moneea, 42, deny killing the daughter of All Ireland Gaelic football-winning manager Mickey...
s case was like a vegetable "rotten in the inside, infested with worms and maggots and only belonging in the rubbish bin". The defence lawyer described the police investigation as a series of "catastrophic failings", from what he alleges was the "repeated and relentless torture" of his client to claims that the murder scene was not preserved properly. Moneea...
Mauritius police chief agrees to produce footage from Legends hotel on day Northern Irish newlywed was murdered The last 35 minutes before Michaela McAreavey was killed will be shown at her murder trial in Mauritius on Thursday. CCTV footage from the Legends hotel will be played, including the crucial period on the day of the killing last January and an hour from the previous day. Giving evidence...