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of those living with HIV. Don't forget, there is | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. A county Tyrone teenager accused of murdering his | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
father has been found guilty of manslaughter, on the grounds of | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
diminished responsibility. Sean Hackett had always admitted shooting | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
his father Aloysius at their family home last year, but his defence said | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
he was mentally disturbed at the time. Julian Fowler was in the | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
court. Shaun Hackett's family arriving in court with their | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
solicitor. The legal team argued that he had killed his father in the | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
erashal belief he would become his guardian in heaven. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
The prosecution argued that he was a cold, calculating manipulative | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
killer, who was not suffering from a recognised mental disorder. The | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Tyrone manager, had given evidence of Shaun's promising future as a | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
talented footballer. Describing him as a quiet, unassuming lovely young | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
gentleman. The trial heard conflicting evidence about his mind | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
at the time of the killing. In his summing up, the judge told the jury, | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
all killings are abhorrent, all killings are truly horrific. People | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
act abnormally, but does not mean that they are suffering with an | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
unrecognised mental condition. It was argued that there was something | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
in the young man's head that was badly wrong. And that a finding of | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
diminished responsibility would be a right verdict, a just verdict and | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
the proper verdict. After two-and-a-half hours of | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
deliberation, the jury agreed. Shaun Hackett was unable to show much | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
emotion when he was said not to be guilty of murder but guilty of | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. As he was | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
led from the courtroom, his mother gave him the thumbs up, say saying | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
"I love you "woep Heline in court next month. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Four brothers have been jailed for up to 11 years each for killing a | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
couple in County Armagh. Thomas O'Hare and Lisa McClatchey died in | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
2006 after their remote cottage near Tassagh was set on fire. This report | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
from Gordon Adair. Thomas O'Hare and Lisa McClatchey died from their | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
horic injuries that they received in the fire that destroyed this | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
cottage, a fire started by four brothers. In December they were all | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
found guilty of manslaughter. Today their mother and other rel tifs went | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
in the public gallery. Niall Smith was jailed for ten years, his | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
brothers 11 years each. Niall Smith's sentence reduced as he had | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The lawyers sent out pleas for the | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
motivation, discussing on the o attack. A lawyer for Stephen Smith | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
smoke spoke of his client's shame, saying that what happened to him | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
could never justify the attack. Referring to the time that elapsed | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
between the date of the abuse and the time he finally felt able to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
tell others, the lawyer said it was important to reflect on the seven | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
years. Saying that his client tried to deal with what happened by | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
ignoring it, while it gnawed away at the back of his mind. A lawyer for | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Martin Smith said that he had planned the attack but prior to this | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
had been a model citizen, but that the make-up of Martin Smith was that | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
of the brig brother with a big sense of guilt about what happened to his | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
little brother and that he had been been unaware of it and unable to | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
protect him, but the judge made it clear that there could be no excuse. | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
The victims' families declined to make any comment. The victim impact | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
statements were not read out in court and the insight into how the | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
killings had affected their lives were given, was shown when the judge | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
said that it was clear that many would never get over what had | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
happened. Security forces have found a viable | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
device in Londonderry. Bomb disposal experts are still on the scene. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
An Ulster Unionist MLA has claimed there could be another 'On the Run' | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
letter that has been sent out by mistake. His comments come after the | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
trial of John Downey collapsed in London because he was mistakenly | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
issued with a letter. The UUP's Danny Kinahan says his party is | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
aware of a similar case here. It has come to our notice, that there may | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
well have been one letter a comfort letter, if we call them that, that | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
has been issued wrongly in Northern Ireland. It may be that same letters | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
has been used to stop prosecution or defence of somebody in the criminal | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
court in Northern Ireland. We want to get to the bottom of it. We want | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
to find out has this gone on, do we know every case of every letter, did | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
the Justice Minister know and if he knew, we need to know how many have | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
gone out, and why we are not being told about it? There is more on that | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
story on the View after this bulletin. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
The police have started an investigation into who sent a bullet | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
in the post to a school in Tobermore in County Londonderry. The incident | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
is being treated as a hate crime. Louise Cullen reports. The | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
investigation began this morning after the letter was received at the | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
primary school on the outskirts of the village of toesh more. -- | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Tobermore. Parents were called here, when they were told when had | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
happened this morning. The school said that the incident was in the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
hands of the police it is understood that the target may have been a | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
family of a child at the school, rather than the child itself. The | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
police confirmed that they were treating the incident as a hate | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
crime. The school is a place where we are | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
sending our children to be educated. They should not be discriminated for | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
against colour, creed, religion. For this to happen in Tobermore is | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
madness. The investigation is continuing. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
The Belfast taxi firm - Fonacab - has apologised to a gay couple who | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
say they were thrown out of one of its taxis for kissing. It happened | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
on Tuesday night when the driver was taking a group of students to a gay | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
nightclub in the city centre. The firm is one of city's biggest taxi | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
companies and has recently sponsored Belfast Pride, an LGBT festival. One | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
of the passengers in the taxi explained to the Talkback radio | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
programme what happened: We were driving down the road, Stuart leaned | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
over and kissed me on the cheek and the neck. The tax dri driver saw it | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
and told us to stop and pulled over and told us to get out. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
We were stunned. We said "are you serious? ." . He said he did not | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
want it in the car. We've had a lot of reaction to this | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
story on our social media page and some people have said that they can | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
understand the taxi driver not wanting to see open displays of | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
affection. Gavin Boyd from the Rainbow Project spoke to us earlier | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
on BBC Newsline. That is everyone's right to not wanting to see | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
affection, however, you cannot say if it is two men or two women | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
kissing that is beyond the pale. Whereas if it is a young man or a | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
woman, it is not treated the same. And in the last in our series of | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
stories marking the start of World War One, we'll be hearing about a | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
mysterious German who made his home near a lead mine in Conlig and how | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
he was put on trial for espionage. He had details of what was alleged | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
to be the Orloch signal station. He had maps, he had railway timetables. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
All sorts of things that seemed to show clearly that he was a spy. | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
And finally on to the weather with Geoff Maskell. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
It has been a grey and a miserable day today. The skies will clear and | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the temperatures dipping away. A chilly night, two to four Celsius, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
but tomorrow promising to be a good bit better. Dry and a little on the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
breezy side, but an improvement. Showers in the early part of the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
day, then the skies clear and then finally a little bit of sunshine. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Then a north/south split. Look at the strong winds into Northern | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Ireland and Scotland. Across England and Wales, a calmer picture there, | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
the high pressure is very much more in charge. As we go through the day, | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
we have cool temperatures but clear skies. So a very different feel to | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the day tomorrow to what we have been used to over the last few days. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
It is not going to last as we head into the weekend. We have another | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
low pressure system on the way. This is going to bring rain and strong | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
winds in over the weekend. So as we go into Saturday, the rain is back | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
with us. It means milder temperatures but not the nicest of | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
days. On Sunday, we are to see that rainy and showery start. The | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
temperatures dropping away, but through Sunday it starts to pick up. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
The good news is that by the time we get to next week, the high pressure | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
is in charge, and things should be more settled. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
And that's it for now. Good night. | :10:03. | :10:03. |