18/09/2014 BBC Newsline

The family of an Armagh man who died after routine surgery at Craigavon

hospital says his care was sub standard.

As a mother, I have lost four of my greatest gifts. It has been so long

since I heard him call my name. As Scotland decides,

I'll have the latest from the A man who claims he accidentally

killed his ex-girlfriend is described in court as a violent

madman on the day of the shooting. In just two weeks time, car tax

discs are going to be phased out. One

of Belfast's best known landmarks is set for a major expansion to get

more conference business. Join me later at the

Waterfront Hall. Tonight, I go head-to-head with the

world number one. And a few showers

in the forecast for tomorrow, The mother

of a 21 year old man has severely criticised the health service

for failing her son who died within Jennifer McAneney from Armagh has

described the care given to her son Peter as sub-standard; she's

also critical of why it took seven months for the Southern Health

Trust to investigate why he died. The BBC can reveal that

the Coroner's Office is carrying out Our Health Correspondent

Marie-Louise Connolly has the story. Peter McAneney was fit and healthy,

the 21-year-old was admitted to Craigavon hospital for a routine in

operation in 2012 and three weeks later was it. Since then his family

have been trying to get to the bottom of what happened to their

only son. Strain the shock, and as a mother, I have lost one of my

greatest gifts, he was our youngest and only son. It has just been so

long since I have heard him call my name, and I just long to see him

come down that path with the bag over his back, but I have to keep

going, searching for answers about Peter. Peter had long-term problems

with here in affections. He agreed to an operation to his inner ear but

without his consent, he received a titania implied. He became ill with

further infections and developed chest pains. He died following a

heart attack. They are not giving us the answers, it is a wall of

silence. They think they are untouchable, that their senior

officers have taken a code of silence. The family have accused the

trust of a catalogue of failings. In a statement to the BBC, the

health trust Stop Peter's bedroom remains as it

was when he left the hospital two and a half years ago and will remain

so until the case is closed. A keen footballer, his untimely death

affecting so many different people. He was so protective of us, he was

kind and caring. He was football mad, he was training every day, he

was great towards us all. His sisters acknowledge that people can

make mistakes but according to Joanne, a nurse, this quest for

truth is taking its toll. The pain of losing your brother doesn't

compare to losing a son, it is hard to watch your parents go through

this grief. The Northern Ireland coroner's office wrote to the

Southern health trust asking for the report into Peter 's death but that

report didn't exist and it was then that the trust reported his death as

a serious and adverse incident. It took a further three months for the

investigation to start and it was then that the family complained. In

terms of the complaint, we formally wrote to them on the 31st of January

20 13th and we received a response on the 10th of December 2013. Almost

a year later. A coroner 's investigation has begun, the next

step for the family will be news of an inquest.

Detectives investigating the death of a man in west Belfast at

Sean Corrigan was found dead in a flat in Saint Mary's Gardens

The police say a post mortem examination carried

out on his body indicated that the 31 year old may have died

There are only a few hours left of voting in the Scottish Referendum.

The independence poll is well underway and our political reporter

Stephen Walker joins us now live from Edinburgh where

The polls opened at 7am this morning, and people start voting

very early, people like Alex Olmert, Gordon Brown, Nicola Sturgeon,

Alistair Darling, there are 100,000 16 and 17-year-olds who are allowed

to vote, they would be putting in the counting centres, all those

results will be coming here, at some stage between midnight and one a.m.,

we will start to get some figures about turnout and most of the

figures will start to come through between three and 6am and tomorrow

breakfast time we will have the final news as to whether Scotland

goes independent or stays part of the union.

And I'll be at Holyrood for tomorrow's BBC Newsline where we'll

We'll also have full coverage of the result and reaction

on television, radio and online starting tomorrow morning.

A man who claims he accidentally killed his ex-girlfriend has been

described in court as a violent madman on the day of the shooting.

Mother of four Marion Millican died in March 2011 after she was shot

in the chest while working at a laundrette in Portstewart.

52 year old Fred McLenaghan, who's from Broad Street

The victim 's family were in court as an interview with her colleague

was played. It was recorded by police hours after the 51-year-old

was shot death. They had just sat down to lunch when Fred McLenaghan

came in. The victim said, you will never believe who this is. Mrs Henry

said she believed was Mrs Milliken 's ex-partner and he was armed. She

fled to a bathroom but claims Fred McLenaghan broke the door down. She

managed to make a run for it and raised the alarm. Before she did,

she looked at her friend one last time. She says, her face was white,

I will never forget. She also claimed her friend had ended her

rigid with Fred McLenaghan three months earlier after he had tried to

strangle her. She added that the mother of four was in the process of

a reconciliation with her husband. Next to give evidence was a friend

of Pamela Henry, who was first into the lawn to read after the shooting

said she found Marion Milliken lying face down and there was blood. Her

husband then arrived and cradled her bloodied. -- cradled her body. The

trial continues. Work begins in the next week

on a ?30 million expansion of this Belfast venue - join me

in a few minutes for a closer look at what's planned as we question if

it will be worth ratepayers' money. A woman who claims she was abused

by the well known folk musician Francis McPeake has been in

the witness box for a second day. The 72 year old, who is part

of the world famous McPeake Musical Family, is on trial for 12 counts of

sex abuse against a teenager from Francis McPeake, part of the musical

dynasty, is accused of having a sexual relationship with a

schoolgirl when she was 15 and he was 67. The woman claims the abuse

took place at a music festival in the Republic and at other venues

around Belfast. Questioning the woman about her evidence, the

defence lawyer said that Francis McPeake had been diagnosed and

treated for prostate cancer in 2004 which had left him unable to have

sex, even with prescribed medication. None of the abuse

happened, he said, none of that sexual activity took place. The

woman insisted she was telling the truth stopped but the lawyer also

raised questions about what he said were inconsistencies between her

police statements and her evidence. Yesterday the woman testified that

she had felt a skin tag on Mr McPeake 's back when they were being

intimate but today the defence barrister said she could have seen

that when he was wearing a vest and cooking in a hot kitchen for

musicians at an event in the Republic. The woman admitted that he

had cooked for them at a festival but insisted she had never seen the

mark. The trial continues. Next a reminder that from

the start of next month, motorists won't have to show their tax disc

in the windscreen of their vehicle Instead, it will be recorded

electronically, as BBC The road tax disc will soon be

history. It has been a legal requirement for motorists since 1921

stop but from the start of next month, it's all going digital rather

than visual. Needless to say, you still have to tax your car. We don't

need it any more, we can do it from our record so we can know with it

someone has paid tax on a vehicle but also, the cameras you see around

and our own cameras. You will be able to tax your car online, by

phone or at a post office. Soon this will be a thing of the past and some

car dealers aren't convinced it's a good idea. No tax discs on the

windows, people are going to forget, it's unnatural thing. Either they

will be reminders, but the tax disc on the window was a fantastic

reminder that has been there for years. Things will change, maybe not

for the best. Whether drivers like it or not, it's going to happen and

it's not the only change. As things stand, if you sell your car, the car

tax can be transferred with it. From next month that can't happen. You

will get a rebate on what's left of your car tax, and the new owner will

have to tax the cars themselves. A recent survey by the RAC suggested

many drivers didn't realise the new system was about to come into place.

It starts on Tiger first stop car windscreens were never quite be the

Find out what happened when Stephen Watson took

a golf lesson from World Number One Rory McIlroy on the River Thames.

The loss-making Waterfront Hall hopes a major extension due to begin

shortly will lift its fortunes and at the same boost

It aims to treble the number of visitors attending big

Donna's overlooking one of the city's best know landmarks

The expansion will change the part of the Waterfront directly

It's a ?30 million project with the aim of increasing visitors.

There were certainly hundreds of people arriving in the city this

morning not here but on the biggest cruise liner to dock in Belfast.

The newly built ship Royal Princess, which is just over a thousand feet

long and 217 feet high has more than 3,500 passengers on board.

Excellent, couldn't ask for more, beautiful town. We were here two

years ago, it's really come up. Having a great time today. It's just

like Glasgow! I love Belfast. We have enjoyed it a lot, lovely city.

We have really enjoyed the talk in a wooded hop on, hop off, really

enjoyed the day. Couple of pubs, just didn't want to do too many more

monuments so it's time that the churches were given away for a

while, town Hall, fantastic. Very nice place, number one.

Those cruise tourists are a welcome boost for the local economy.

But just as crucial are the people coming

here for conferences - a market this city is aiming to develop.

Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill takes up the story.

Work will shortly commence to almost double the size of the Waterfront,

two-year overhaul the aim to deliver larger, more lucrative conference

business. Everybody globally is aware of Belfast. Maybe not for the

right reason but what you have is that global awareness already. You

also have a huge renaissance and building resented the Renaissance.

That extinction will give us a second Renaissance. -- that

extension. The waterfront has been operating at a loss for a long time.

But conference delegate numbers are moving up and last year hit a high

of 43,000. The aim is to trouble that number by 2020 and break even.

All thanks to this investment of ?30 million, split between the council,

the tourist board and Europe. The waterfront is operated by Belfast

council but part of the conditions attached to it getting almost ?20

million towards the extension is to examine future operating models so

it could be in years to come that the Waterfront is run by an outside

company. Belfast already does solid conference business, this one by the

British Academy of management was one of its largest today and Inc

titanic Belfast. With over 900 delegates, hopefully people will

stay on, spend their money and stay in our hotels. Belfast does it

beautifully because of the proximity of all the big hotels to the

conference centre, you have this attraction, it's a great venue. It's

a very vibrant city, absolutely buzzing. The extension will boost

the exhibition space of the Waterfront. The concert venues will

not change but the overall scale of the project reflects big ambitions.

When we are talking about conferences, we're talking about

large numbers. Do we have the capacity already in Belfast for

those numbers? Business tourism is so important to our tourism economy,

and the investment that the Northern Ireland tourist board are putting

into the expansion of the Waterfront is a game changer in terms of

business tourism. It's hard to quantify but in truth it is of the

same significance as titanic Belfast is for leisure tourism. It creates a

whole new business for us. Howard Tremarco is this venue when it is

finished to the hotel? -- how detrimental. There are already

conferences and fighting for business. It creates a whole new

market. We should congratulate Belfast City Council and ATV and

others for the vision they have shown in investing, because for the

last three years... But Howard detrimental would it be for other

businesses? It won't be. We have increased conferences to the city by

130%, secured ?80 million into the local economy, Belfast is the

number-1 conference city the UK. This facility creates a whole new

market, international conferences, that would bring one thousand two

2000 delegates, they will stay for five days. When those people come,

they are high spenders, they will increase in the city, increase the

occupancy rates and then increase the economic... But it sounds like a

dream, ?30 million, it needs to pay off, do you have business all fully

secure business that will fill the Waterfront whole? We have not been

going after business because we didn't have the facilities, now we

have the product that will make us competitive for that international

market. We have secured 18 conferences for the city, between

now and 2020, that will be housed in the hole. Off the top of my head, I

can name you the world conference for credit unions, July 20 ?3

million to the local economy. 1000 delegates... I have got the point!

It is not detrimental, it is a huge boost to the tourism economy. Work

begins in about a week. It's it will open in May 2016. -- it's hoped it

will open. We'll find out then if the dream will become reality in

terms of conference business. Now if you're a golfer, can you

think of a better way to spend a day than hitting balls in the

company of the world's top player? Mark Sidebottom is here

with this evening's sport. Strikes me as the perfect way to

unwind ahead of next week?s Ryder Cup - the bi-annual competition

between Europe and the USA. Rory McIlroy said he wasn't going to

practice this week but in front of a London landmark, he had the clubs

out. It was only for a final promotional challenge which included

a lesson for the mayor before the serious stuff gets underway next

week. I needed the week off, it's been nice. I got home to Northern

Ireland, got to catch up with friends and family, I needed it. I

was feeling jaded. I will be ready to go by next Friday. After winning

two major championships this summer and becoming the world 's best

player again, he would love to hit the first tee shot for Europe next

week. I will have a lot more responsibility, I was world number

one going into the Ryder Cup in 2012 but I feel like this is my third

one, I am not the rookie any more. I have a little bit more

responsibility. Try and set the example and lead from the front.

Hopefully the captain will put that trust in me and I can leave the team

out and get some points for Europe. He is keen to rekindle his

successful partnership. I would love to play with Graham, we have a great

chemistry on the golf course, I'm sure we can team up for some points.

Then it was time for me to go head-to-head with him. Great

depression from the! This thing is rocking a bit.

Haven't seen this action in a while, this is a sight to behold. Possibly

one of the most nerve wracking things I have ever done. Done him

the bridge! -- don't hit the bridge! In the last few minutes, the Royal

and ancient golf club of St Andrews has voted to welcome women members,

85% of those taking part in the change.

Fifa executive committee member Jim Boyce says he plans to return

a ?16,000 watch he received at the World Cup.

Today FIFA ordered the return of sixty-five such watches

distributed by the Brazilian Football Confederation.

Its ethics code bans officials from receiving such gifts.

Will he win or will he lose - will he stay or will he go - whatever

the result of Sunday's All Ireland football final between Donegal and

Kerry, Jim Mcguinness, the boy who forsook school books for fishing

football, will remain one of most compelling figures in Irish sport.

Here?s the potted history of the man who has made winning a science.

The Jim McGuinness story reads like Homer 's Iliad, epic, poignant. He

left school without a qualification, he took to see, and aged 23, had

jumped ship to embrace education again. A seven-year academic to be

taken to a Masters degree in sports psychology, the image as a player

was Johnny Depp meets Che Guevara. As a manager, he became a genuine

revolutionary. In 2011, Kevin Cassidy stepped outside the circle

and was cut adrift. The system became king. But impervious to the

derision, by 2012, Donegal, a ragtag band of merry men with a prior

petition for fun, were all Ireland champions. Glasgow Celtic came

calling. His number two and others defected from the backroom team.

McGuinness simply stayed in darkness. Now to crack the Kerry

conundrum. He will pick the team that he thinks will win the game, he

has shown he's not to make decisions and change things. -- not afraid to.

That is our mantra as well. We have to get ready for the match and

prepare as best we can and hopefully execute the game plan. Five babies

have come along and in Donegal, it's all about family.

Finally Tommy Bowe and Paddy Jackson, will play their first match

of the season when Ulster take on Cardiff tomorrow.

A few showers in the forecast but hardly enough to whet the grounds I

don't get too excited if you are looking for some rain, the emphasis

is still on more dry weather. Also a fair amount of cloud, it has been

cloudy again, and misdemeanours as well. The West was best, where we

got some holes in the cloud, it was quite warm. In the West, the best

chance of seeing some bright spots, elsewhere, it is a hazy and murky

picture, through the night we will find the cloud starts to move in.

Quite mild and muggy night to come as well. As we head into tomorrow,

we have a weather front moving in from the North West, mainly

affecting Scotland, some of it touching Northern Ireland, that will

have the effect of bringing more cloud and if you showers as well. --

a few showers. We will start to see a few of those showery bits and

pieces arriving into the Northwest towards the end of the rush-hour and

the second half of the morning, moving inland through the afternoon

but they will be well scattered. Quite a few places will not see any

of them at all, we might get the odd writer glimpse. Into tomorrow, still

the risk of one or two showers but again, some good try spells.

Tomorrow night should be quite mild, as we head into Saturday, a better

day, it brightens up but it will be fresher, with a northerly breeze.