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On BBC Two in a few moments, the former | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Good evening. A weapons conviction against one of the Colombia Three is | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
to be quashed after a ruling by the Court of Appeal. Martin McCauley was | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
convicted after being injured in a so-called shoot to kill incident in | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
County Armagh 32 years ago. Three judges today accepted that the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
conviction was unsafe because vital evidence about what happened was | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
withheld from his trial. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent | :00:24. | :00:38. | |
Kearney reports. Scorers that time has not removed. 17-year-old Michael | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
was killed and Martin McCauley was injured when they were shot here by | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
RUC officers in November, 1982. Nearly 32 years later, the shooting | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
here remains shrouded in mystery and controversy. Police claim they were | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
confronted by two men armed with rifles and only opened fire after | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
shouting and number of warnings. Martin McCauley has insisted they | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
were not armed and that no warnings were given. It later emerged that | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
MI5 had a listening device hidden inside the shed that recorded what | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
happened, but that recording was destroyed. This is Martin McCauley | :01:19. | :01:38. | |
leaving court in 1985 at being given at two year suspended sentence for | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
possession of three rifles found inside the shed. The court was not | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
made aware of the MI5 recording. Its existence and the fact that it was | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
later destroyed, was discovered by the Deputy Chief Constable of | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
Greater Manchester. He investigated allegations that the RUC was | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
deliberately killing unarmed republicans. At the Court of Appeal, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Martin McCauley's lawyer but -- quoted from the report into the | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
incidents. It is the first time details of the report have been made | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
public. The lawyer said the report notes that police officers fired 47 | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
shots at the men and that none were fired in return. She said it was | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
clear there had been a conspiracy by police officers to prevent those | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
involved in the shooting facing criminal charges. The cover-up | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
involved the destruction of the secret recording. The QC read the | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
accounts of five MI5 officers who listen to the recording before it | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
was destroyed, none of them said they heard any warning. One officer | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
said he was concerned that there had not been a warning and that firing | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
had continued even after a cease-fire order had been given. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Another officers said he heard someone say, we will get them | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
between bursts of gunfire. The barrister said it was clear that | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
both men had been shot without warning or the opportunity to | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
surrender. She said the fact that evidence about the shooting had been | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
destroyed and that police officers had lied about what happened, meant | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
the conviction was unsafe. After brief discussion with the two | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
judges, the Lord Chief Justice said they were satisfied that the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
conviction was unsafe and should be quashed. Martin McCauley's wife was | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
in court and afterwards welcomed the ruling. Nothing will bring back | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Michael, but at least what has been exposed, for his family, his parents | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
and siblings have known for years, was that Michael was cut down in | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
cold blooded murder by state forces. Martin McCauley could not face -- | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
could not face the hearing because... A 49-year-old woman is in | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
a critical condition in hospital after an incident at a house in | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Lisburn this morning. It's understood she's being treated for | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
burn injuries. A 48-year-old man who was also in the house on Glenavy | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Road is also being treated for burn injuries. It's believed his | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
condition is not life-threatening. The police are trying to establish | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
what happened. An ambulance taking a patient to hospital after a road | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
crash in County Armagh was itself involved in a hit and run this | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
afternoon. A car which collided with the ambulance in Camlough drove off | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
in the direction of Newtwonhamilton. The patient and crew were not | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
seriously injured but the ambulance was damaged. The police are | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
appealing for witnesses to the incident on Old Road at around four | :04:23. | :04:23. | |
o'clock to contact them. A incident on Old Road at around four | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
the Sisters of Nazareth has apologised again on behalf of the | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
order for the abuse apologised again on behalf of the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
its care homes in Londonderry. She was giving evidence to the | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry. The former Bishop of Derry | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Edward Daly also gave evidence today. Our reporter Kevin Sharkey | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
was at the inquiry's public hearing in Banbridge. Sister Brenda McCall | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
was the public face of the Sisters of Nazareth giving evidence today. A | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
congregation battered and bruised by years of allegations of child abuse | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
and on the half of the nuns, Sister McCall admitted that abuse happened | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
and apologised. She listened in to much of the evidence of former | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
residents over the first 36 days of the enquiry and today, giving | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
evidence, she said that much of that evidence has been very shocking and | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
harrowing for us. She said, it is clear that at certain times, and | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
with certain nuns, some things were not right. When asked about a | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
previous apology and whether that should be extended to include | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
emotional abuse, she should be extended to include | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
former Bishop of Derry, should be extended to include | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
said he never experienced should be extended to include | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
like he witnessed in should be extended to include | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
admired the work of the nuns in helping people in need. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
admired the work of the nuns in on the abuse, the retired Bishop | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
said, I think we are all responsible for not knowing and he said | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
said, I think we are all responsible believes that society in general and | :05:57. | :06:21. | |
community leaders like himself take the work of the Sisters of Nazareth | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
nuns looked after 5000 children, the nuns looked after 5000 children, the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
have happened to the children if they had not. He said that in 36 | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
years, he received only one complaint about the Sisters of | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
Nazareth. It came complaint about the Sisters of | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
from her brother. The bishop described the letter she sent him as | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
long and hard braking. The phase of the enquiry examining the homes is | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
due to finish later this month. The NI21 party has announced it will | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
change its designation in the Assembly at the earliest opportunity | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
from 'Unionist' to 'other'. The party's Executive took the decision | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
earlier today ahead of Thursday's elections. The European Candidate | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Tina McKenzie said it was a response intended to clear up any confusion | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
about the party's position, which is cross-community. The Queen's Baton | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Relay is in Northern Ireland for a four-day visit ahead of the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. It's the traditional curtain raiser for | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
the Games which begin on the 23rd of July. Earlier this evening, the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
baton was taken to the Northern Ireland Sports Institute at the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Antrim Forum, much to the delight of gymnasts, both big and small, who | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
were more than happy to take a break from training, to get a closer | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
look... It is great, so proud to be here in the Antrim Forum and to | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
witness it passing through our borough. The facilities here are | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
second to none and I think it shows how much we have developed in terms | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
of a sporting region, that the baton has come to visit us. The chairman | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
of Glentoran has stepped down from his position after three years. In a | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
statement ahead of the match tonight, seen here in the middle, he | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
said the relocation to a new stadium from the Oval had not developed as | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
quickly as he had planned. He said he was confident that the board | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
would be in a position to make a positive announcement on the matter | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
in the near future. On tomorrow's BBC Newsline at 6:30pm, we'll have | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
the second part of our series from our reporter Andy West, who has been | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
experiencing what it's like to be homeless and to live on the streets | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
of Belfast. He's been finding out what help is available and has been | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
listening to the views of some of those who find themselves having to | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
sleep rough. That's on BBC Newsline tomorrow evening at 6:30pm, with | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
more on the radio on the Good Morning Ulster programme. His diary | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
is online. Now the weather with Barra Best... | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
Tomorrow is going to be a much better day and it will be drier and | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
brighter, but it will not be dry all day. There will be the odd scattered | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
showers. Most of the wet weather will be confined to some western | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
areas. Further east, it will be largely dry and bright. The | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
unsettled weather will stretch down some western areas of Ireland, into | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
the North West of Scotland as well, in between, drier and brighter with | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
good spells of sunshine. Towards the south-east in England, a bit | :09:08. | :09:26. | |
cloudier with the odd spot of rain. Temperatures in and around the mid | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
to high teens. Into the afternoon, Northern Ireland can expect good | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
spells of sunshine. A few of the showers that we see Justin and could | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
be heavy. We might get some thunder. Temperatures could get up to 16 | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
degrees. As we look ahead to Thursday, we are expecting a largely | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
dry start, but as we go through the day, some wet weather will come in | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
from the south-east, with the cooler feel to the air, highs of around 13 | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
or 14 degrees. We will keep you updated. That's it for now. You can | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
keep up to date with News Online and follow this programme on Facebook | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
and Twitter. From BBC Newsline, goodnight. | :10:00. | :10:01. |