:00:00. > :00:00.it's time for the news where you are.
:00:07. > :00:15.Good evening. There were heated exchanges during an emergency debate
:00:16. > :00:19.at the Assembly this afternoon. It was called in the wake of the On The
:00:20. > :00:22.Runs crisis. A motion of disgust was proposed by the First Minister,
:00:23. > :00:25.Peter Robinson, after nearly 200 letters were issued to republicans
:00:26. > :00:29.classified as on the run - assuring them that the police were not
:00:30. > :00:36.seeking to arrest them. Here's our Political Correspondent, Martina
:00:37. > :00:41.Purdy. Sinn Fein was on the sides of the dams who round in the party
:00:42. > :00:50.outside a news conference accusing republicans of running away. The
:00:51. > :00:55.innocent victims have been kicked to the curb. We made the ultimate
:00:56. > :00:58.sacrifice, our loved ones were murdered, these two girls had loved
:00:59. > :01:07.ones murdered. What more can the innocent victims give? Inside the
:01:08. > :01:11.chamber, the First Minister accused the Government of keeping him in the
:01:12. > :01:16.dark about the On the Run scheme and focused on the inquiry he had been
:01:17. > :01:19.promised. It is essential we get at the truth of all that went on in
:01:20. > :01:27.order to restore the public confidence that has been so damaged
:01:28. > :01:30.by this murky deal. Across the chamber, the Deputy First Minister
:01:31. > :01:40.attacked his power-sharing partner over his threat to quit. It is knee
:01:41. > :01:43.jerk politics. I believe we need to move quickly, we'd better start
:01:44. > :01:46.grappling with the new issues, not manufactured ones. As for the Ulster
:01:47. > :01:51.Unionist leader, he said he had little faith in the inquiry and it
:01:52. > :01:55.is time for others to tell the truth about what he called dirty deals. If
:01:56. > :02:02.there have been more dirty deals, tell us now. Tell us now, because we
:02:03. > :02:05.took risks for peace. Sinn Fein and others just took and continue to
:02:06. > :02:13.take and the Ulster Unionist Party says this in conclusion - enough is
:02:14. > :02:16.enough. The SDLP likened the First Minister to the Grand Old Duke of
:02:17. > :02:25.York, while another leader mocked his decision not to resign. -- the
:02:26. > :02:29.TUV reader. -- leader. It is a farce, it is a Whitewash, and as for
:02:30. > :02:35.the demand that the letters should be rescinded, well, Mrs Foster, I
:02:36. > :02:47.think she was on the run herself. After saying that rescinding was a
:02:48. > :02:49.resigning issue. Now we find all the Secretary of State had to do was
:02:50. > :02:57.repeat what is in the letters already. I find it beneath contempt
:02:58. > :03:02.that you are like me to and on the run. The second point, a victim of
:03:03. > :03:07.IRA violence is on the run, apparently. The DUP motion calling
:03:08. > :03:10.on the government to take swift action to read the old confidence
:03:11. > :03:20.was backed by 58 votes to 27 votes. A pipebomb has been found on the
:03:21. > :03:23.outskirts of Londonderry. The alert centred on the Braehead Road, close
:03:24. > :03:27.to the border with Donegal. A controlled explosion was carried out
:03:28. > :03:30.and a number of items taken away for further examination. A former bank
:03:31. > :03:33.manager, a solicitor and an estate agent have been jailed for their
:03:34. > :03:36.part in a mortgage fraud and money-laundering operation in South
:03:37. > :03:45.Armagh and County Louth which involved millions of pounds. Here's
:03:46. > :03:48.Gordon Adair. Damian Mallon, a crooked estate agent, Pater Brassil,
:03:49. > :03:54.a crooked solicitor with a cocaine habit and Peter Creegan, a crooked
:03:55. > :04:02.bank manager. -- Peter. They were the fraud of equivalent of a perfect
:04:03. > :04:05.storm. Damian Mallon was a financial adviser, Peter Creegan was manager
:04:06. > :04:11.of this bank in Newry and Peter Brassil worked for a law firm. They
:04:12. > :04:15.began to apply for and facilitate mortgages across the country. At a
:04:16. > :04:19.glance, all the necessary arrangements seem to be in place,
:04:20. > :04:21.but the mortgages were fake and the borrowers were either completely
:04:22. > :04:34.fictional or were unsuspecting innocents whose identification was
:04:35. > :04:38.stolen and used by the gang. This is the village of Omeath in County
:04:39. > :04:41.Louth and at the height of the boom, it was one of those places which had
:04:42. > :04:45.something about it, property prices seem to be going up day on day, new
:04:46. > :04:48.developments like this one were springing up at an incredible rate,
:04:49. > :04:56.and with all that money sloshing around, it was the sort of place
:04:57. > :04:59.where the trio operated. They arranged a mortgage, supposedly for
:05:00. > :05:09.a client in North America, to buy this end terrace house for 180,000
:05:10. > :05:16.euros. It was one of many properties bought which were fraudulent. This
:05:17. > :05:24.piece of land was mortgaged to the tune of one and a quarter million
:05:25. > :05:28.euros. Its actual value is around 40,000 euros. This is common in
:05:29. > :05:31.mortgage fraud. It gives the fraudsters an immediate surplus and
:05:32. > :05:37.allows them to launder more money in less time. The police have refused
:05:38. > :05:40.to speculate on just whose money the trio may have been laundering, but
:05:41. > :05:44.when I suggested it could have been the profits from oil or cigarette
:05:45. > :05:55.smuggling, a source close to the investigation said that seemed a
:05:56. > :05:59.reasonable proposition. There are two things. There is greed at the
:06:00. > :06:02.heart of this, a lot of greed. Secondly, these are money-laundering
:06:03. > :06:06.offences. These loans were fronted to launder money, it is criminal
:06:07. > :06:10.property and I think it is a good result today to show that you cannot
:06:11. > :06:21.get away with defrauding both the bank and victims. The Chief
:06:22. > :06:29.Inspector said he understood the bank had taken steps to prevent any
:06:30. > :06:32.repeat of this situation. A convicted paedophile who had been
:06:33. > :06:35.living in Lurgan has been sentenced to three years in prison. The man
:06:36. > :06:42.pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a young girl in Lurgan last year.
:06:43. > :06:47.Claire Savage reports. 42-year-old David Page, whose address was given
:06:48. > :06:49.in Belfast, but who had been living for some time in Albert Street in
:06:50. > :06:55.Lurgan, sexually assaulted a young girl. He also breached a sexual
:06:56. > :07:00.offences order and his probation. He refused to come out of his cell
:07:01. > :07:05.today, so we judge said he would sentence in his absence. The court
:07:06. > :07:09.heard his victim had been walking to a friends house when the attack
:07:10. > :07:14.happened one afternoon last May. Page stopped outside his home and
:07:15. > :07:17.brought inside. He started to kiss on the lips using his hand, he
:07:18. > :07:23.touched on the stomach, knee and back. When the six road wanted to
:07:24. > :07:28.leave, he shouted at her and warned her not to tell her parents. In
:07:29. > :07:31.court, a statement by the victim 's mother was referred to. She said her
:07:32. > :07:36.daughter had gone from being a happy-go-lucky to an angry girl. She
:07:37. > :07:41.blamed herself that she had gone into his house. Described as a
:07:42. > :07:45.persistent offender, the hearing heard he committed a string of sex
:07:46. > :07:49.offences since 1991. The most serious crime was raped, for which
:07:50. > :07:53.he was sentenced to seven years in 1987. Today, the judge sentenced him
:07:54. > :07:59.to three years in prison. In rugby, Tommy Bowe marked his return to the
:08:00. > :08:07.Ulster team tonight by crossing the line twice in a five-try victory
:08:08. > :08:10.over the Dragons. The Pro12 League clash finished 38-8 at Ravenhill.
:08:11. > :08:13.Ruan Pienaar and Sean Doyle also touched down. Paddy Jackson added
:08:14. > :08:17.the conversions while Pienaar also kicked a penalty, adding to the home
:08:18. > :08:17.side's total. Onto the weekend weather
:08:18. > :08:30.You will notice it is quite chilly at their and through the course of
:08:31. > :08:34.the night we are expecting some ice to form. We have had showers today
:08:35. > :08:38.because temperatures will fall to freezing and below in countryside
:08:39. > :08:42.areas and there will be frost and pockets of fog around first thing
:08:43. > :08:46.tomorrow. Overall, tomorrow will be disappointing to start the weekend,
:08:47. > :08:50.cloudy and fairly damp. Beginning the morning, the best chance of
:08:51. > :08:53.brighter weather is across Antrim and County Down but the cloud will
:08:54. > :08:59.not take long to reach here and elsewhere, very cloudy and damp. It
:09:00. > :09:02.is disappointing across Ireland, grey and damp and the best weather
:09:03. > :09:07.tomorrow across many areas of written. Brightening up nicely with
:09:08. > :09:11.good spells of sunshine, although it will be a chilly start. By the
:09:12. > :09:16.afternoon, temperatures into double figures in the South East. West of
:09:17. > :09:20.that will stay on settled and we have this band of rain stretching
:09:21. > :09:23.across Ulster and into contact. During the afternoon, that will will
:09:24. > :09:28.spread eastwards, not reaching the East Coast of Al fast until six
:09:29. > :09:33.o'clock but eventually it will do so, giving us a wet end to the day.
:09:34. > :09:38.Temperatures at six degrees, dine on what they should be. It will feel
:09:39. > :09:42.quite cold. That rim of clear and temperatures will fall back, so it
:09:43. > :09:48.chilly, frosty start for some of us on Sunday, it is the best in the
:09:49. > :09:51.morning and eventually it will cloud over once again through the day.
:09:52. > :09:55.More rain is on the way although that will clear into next week. We
:09:56. > :09:59.are expecting another unsettled outlook. That's it. You can keep
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:10:10. > :10:12.fairness in employment for granted. I have never felt it important
:10:13. > :10:15.to ask anybody's religion when I'm going to employ them
:10:16. > :10:18.as a sheet metal worker.