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Good evening. A gas fitter has admitted causing the deaths of two | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
teenagers by incorrectly fitting a gas boiler. Neil McFerran and Aaron | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Davidson were poisoned by carbon monoxide at an apartment in | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Castlerock in 2010. Today, George Brown from Aghadowey pleaded guilty | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
to their manslaughter and other breaches of health and safety laws. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
There is flash photography in this report from our reporter David | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
Maxwell. Three and a half years on, the | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
families of two teenagers killed in a holiday tragedy today heard a gas | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
fitter accepted it was his fault. This is the man, 52-year-old George | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Brown from Aghadowey, seen here at an all -- earlier court hearing. The | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
tragedy happened in this seaside apartment in August 2010. Neil | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
McFerran, Aaron Davidson and another teenager came here for a weekend | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
break. They were waiting for exam results. But the holiday at the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Castlerock apartment was to end in tragedy. Unable to make contact with | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the 18-year-olds, all of the parents came to the village. Inside, a scene | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
of horror. Neil McFerran and Aaron Davidson were dead. Their friend was | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
seriously ill. The teenagers had been poisoned by carbon monoxide | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
gas. In the days that followed, George Brown's name was made public. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
The health and safety executive warned anyone with appliances fitted | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
by him to turn them off. His shop was searched. But it was not until | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
January that he was charged with two counts of manslaughter and other | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
health and safety breaches in properties across the North Coast. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
He was set to contest those charges at a trial due to begin here next | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
week but today he changed his plea to guilty on all charges. This case | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
sparked the biggest health and safety investigation of its kind in | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Northern Ireland. This is the first case of its kind in Northern Ireland | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
were by gross negligence manslaughter has been proven for | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
carbon monoxide. It is a tragic event in the relation of Neil | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
McFerran and Aaron Davidson and it has not been without its trials and | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
liberation is getting to this stage. The families had one another but | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
were too emotional to speak. Brown was granted bail and he will be | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
sentenced on March 14. People who were abused in children's | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
homes have for the first time in public been recalling the traumatic | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
details of how they were treated. One former resident said the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
behaviour of nuns at a Sisters of Nazareth home in Londonderry was | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
"bordering on the psychotic" and likened the home to a concentration | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
camp. You may find some of the details in this report by Newsline's | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Tara Mills distressing. Life at the children's home, but the evidence | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
today tells a different story. Three former residents were the first to | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
give their account of what happened. One described the home as | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
a hellhole, saying the Sisters of Nazareth regularly kicked and | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
stamped on them. The witness said the behaviour of the lens was | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
bordering on the psychotic. Even their very presence was ominous. He | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
described the damage done as permanent and said some of the | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
former residents are still the boys who left, even though they are now | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
in their 60s. He said they are sad, lonely and broken. The second | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
witness said he was sexually abused when he was eight by an older | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
resident at the home. He said he screamed and eight nun came in and | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
when he tried to restrain what happened, she slapped him and said | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
he was evil. The man who is now 74 said the older boys acted as a gang, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
beating him until he blacked out. There were times I thought I was | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
going to die, he said. He said he was aware, even as a young child, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
that some of the younger nuns were not happy about what was going on | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
but begins with bamboo sticks and canes were a regular occurrence. Two | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
former residents spoke of being stripped naked and forced back with | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
the others. The enquiry is protecting the identity of witnesses | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
but when waved that protection today to allow his voice to be heard. Such | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
places should not have existed, even back then. And there is no waste use | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
of, those were the times. People knew about children and could care | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
for them properly even back in the 1950s. There is no excuse that that | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
was the way things work then. The enquiry will hear from more former | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
residents tomorrow. Two police officers were slightly | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
injured tonight when a stolen car reversed into their vehicle at speed | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
in west Belfast. The police then used a stinger device on the car. It | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
was abandoned in Suffolk Court. The driver and a passenger, who are both | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
aged 23, were arrested. It's believed another passenger escaped | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
the scene. The Police say they have spoken to a | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
12-year-old boy in relation to car crimes on New Year's Eve. They are | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
continuing to investigate a series of incidents where cars were driven | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
erratically and at speed in the west Belfast area. The boy is to take | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
part in youth conferencing where young offenders get the chance to | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
understand the impact of their actions and make amends. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
A report has found that the probable cause of a plane crash in Cork that | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
killed six people was a loss of control during an aborted landing. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
The pilot and co-pilot were among those who died when the Manx2 plane | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
crashed on approach to Cork Airport on a flight from Belfast. The | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
investigation made 11 safety recommendations. It said there was | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
poor visibility, the crew was very tied and that there had been a lack | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
of oversight by the Spainish aviation authorities. | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
We do these investigations to determine a cause and make | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
recommendations for appropriate action in order to prevent future | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
accidents from happening. The aircraft was being operated by a | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
certain airline which would have a certificate. In this case it was a | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
bit more complicated than that. The funeral has taken place in | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Limavady of Simon Chase, who died in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan ten | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
days ago. Several hundred people attended the service at Christ | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Church. Mr Chase, who was originally from Chester, had been living in | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Limavady with his partner and two sons. He was working for the EU | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
police mission in Kabul when he and 20 others died. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Residents campaigning against a proposed housing development in west | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Belfast say they hope to send hundreds of letters to objection to | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
planners. People living near the former Visteon car plant off the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Blacks Road were tonight given letters to send to the planning | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
service. They object to a proposal for more than 200 units of social | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
housing on the site. They say they want it retained for commercial use | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
to bring jobs to the area. The core of our objection is the | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
loss of the sustainable work site in the Visteon site and that is what we | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
are really pushing for. We are hoping that by putting this forward, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
we can keep that cite this we can get some sustainable work for young | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
people. Brian O'Driscoll insists he bears no | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
ill-will towards Wales coach Warren Gatland. The Six Nations gets | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
underway this coming weekend with Ireland's first game at home to | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Scotland on Sunday. But today, O'Driscoll fielded questions about | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
facing Wales in Ireland's second match and facing the coach who | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
controversially dropped him from the third and final Lions Test last | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
summer. What happened, happened. No one can | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
change it. I don't have any ill will towards Warren. It was raw | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
afterwards, the emotions are a bit different. Kind to heal all wounds | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
and I don't have any animosity towards him. I will look towards | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
trying to be involved in a team that potentially can be his team. But | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
that is next week. Ice hockey, and the Belfast Giants | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
have won the first leg of their semifinal in the Challenge Cup. They | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
defeated the Cardiff Devils 7-1. Now with the weather forecast, | :08:34. | :08:34. | |
here's Cecilia Daly. It was very much a case of West is | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
best to date but it looks as though the rain is going to be back more or | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
less everywhere by the end of the night. Most of the wet weather is in | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Eastern counties but as the night goes on, it will extend further west | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
as well. By morning, most places will have some rain. Another showery | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
day to come. Particularly through the morning. That is when it will be | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
wettest across most places. That means a lot of surface water when | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
you are on your way to work or school. Looking at the bigger | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
picture, it is fairly unsubtle generally across Britain and | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Ireland. Some sleet and snow falling over the higher ground of Scotland | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
and northern England. Later in the day it will become drier across | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
north-west Scotland. And improving picture if you live in the North and | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
West tomorrow because it will become drier, although it will feel chilly | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
in the easterly breeze. Still some wet weather bothering the south-east | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
at times. On Thursday, it will be dry in many places, at least for a | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
while. There will be some brightness and sunshine but it will feel cold. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Temperatures really struggling. Rain is just waiting to come in and that | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
is what returns on Friday. It stays unsettled through the weekend and we | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
have an early warning out for some of leading issues by the end of the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
week. That's it for now. You can keep up | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
to date with News Online and follow this programme on Facebook and | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Twitter. From BBC Newsline, good night. | :10:16. | :10:17. |