:00:08. > :00:12.Two young men have been jailed for the torture and rape
:00:13. > :00:15.The court was told of the "exceptional degradation"
:00:16. > :00:17.of the 17-year-old boy, attacked in an "appalling
:00:18. > :00:24.One man was sentenced to 11 years, the other to six,
:00:25. > :00:27.and both were put on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
:00:28. > :00:30.Aodhan Woods, from Belfast, says he is not a victim,
:00:31. > :00:32.but a survivor and he hopes that, by talking
:00:33. > :00:35.about his ordeal in public, he will help others
:00:36. > :00:49.He spoke to our reporter, Sara Neill.
:00:50. > :00:58.Tied up, locked in a cupboard and sexually assaulted. He was just 17
:00:59. > :01:05.when he was subjected to what the judge described as a horrific and
:01:06. > :01:12.audio. Adjusted not know what was going to happen and the whole idea
:01:13. > :01:19.-- ordeal was terrifying. He was attacked in flat Darren Fu by and
:01:20. > :01:25.decor accused who cannot be named. He was threatened at knife-point,
:01:26. > :01:30.locked in a cupboard and subjected to several serious sexual assaults
:01:31. > :01:37.over a few hours. It left psychological scars and he was
:01:38. > :01:42.diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, but with his right to
:01:43. > :01:51.anonymity, to help others who have suffered the same ordeal. I am
:01:52. > :02:09.slowly building my trust by cop of people. It is hard to think how your
:02:10. > :02:19.friends could do that to you. What do you think of them though? The
:02:20. > :02:27.monsters. I hate them both. They have not ruined his life because he
:02:28. > :02:31.is a good person. He is hopeful that by taking the brave step of speaking
:02:32. > :02:44.out about what happened, others will stand up to the abusers. I have been
:02:45. > :02:49.so so much and I will be a better person and this has inspired me. I
:02:50. > :02:55.want others to have the confidence to come forward, rather than having
:02:56. > :03:01.the fear that they cannot speak to anyone about it. I feel so much
:03:02. > :03:04.better having spoken out. The Prime Minister told the Commons
:03:05. > :03:07.this afternoon that the Secretary of State's backing of the campaign
:03:08. > :03:09.for the UK to leave the EU Earlier, Deputy First Minister
:03:10. > :03:12.Martin McGuinness had said Our political correspondent
:03:13. > :03:32.Gareth Gordon reports. Theresa Villiers Once out of the
:03:33. > :03:39.European Union. The Deputy First Minister wants about the job in
:03:40. > :03:44.Northern Ireland. I think if she is part of the exit campaign, the
:03:45. > :03:53.proper thing would be for her to step aside. That is stronger than
:03:54. > :04:00.the other Stormont parties. But the also have major concerns about her
:04:01. > :04:05.position. I talked to her last year and said that if she could not
:04:06. > :04:10.divorce her position here as secretary of State from her position
:04:11. > :04:18.within regard to the European Union, her position would be untenable. She
:04:19. > :04:24.will have the best interests of Northern Ireland at heart in the
:04:25. > :04:34.decision she has made. The party were clean to play down any
:04:35. > :04:41.division. It is entirely principled of her to take the position she has
:04:42. > :04:44.taken. I mean, should the Deputy First Minister resigned because he
:04:45. > :04:49.has made his position clear? I think it is all a bit of a red herring. In
:04:50. > :04:57.the House of Commons, the Prime Minister was asked about the
:04:58. > :05:04.situation facing Northern Ireland and the case of an exit. I look
:05:05. > :05:07.forward to going to Northern Ireland and speaking to the people about why
:05:08. > :05:16.we should remain in the European Union. The Ulster Unionist executive
:05:17. > :05:23.although meet to decide what to do. We want to be the people who will
:05:24. > :05:30.listen to the business community, the other communities and that is
:05:31. > :05:35.what we will do in the next few days. A former Ulster Ulster
:05:36. > :05:40.Unionist leader said he wanted to leave. We see that Europe is
:05:41. > :05:47.basically a failure. It is not generating jobs, which we are. That
:05:48. > :05:55.is also going to be very significant. It is unlikely that the
:05:56. > :06:02.votes from Northern Ireland, one of the smallest parts of the United
:06:03. > :06:07.Kingdom, will be that overwhelmingly significant, but it is clear that
:06:08. > :06:09.there is good to be vibrant debate coming up in this part of the world.
:06:10. > :06:11.Our political editor Mark Devenport asked Theresa Villiers to respond
:06:12. > :06:16.to the call for her to resign over her support for a UK exit.
:06:17. > :06:25.I do not accept that at all. I am totally dedicated to my position
:06:26. > :06:28.here. I will continue to do that. I have been involved in this campaign
:06:29. > :06:35.but that will not distract me from a moment. Do you think there's a
:06:36. > :06:40.strong level of support in Northern Ireland for the European Union? Is
:06:41. > :06:46.that difficult given your position? The reality is that we are going to
:06:47. > :06:51.embark on a huge democratic process, whereby every man and woman in the
:06:52. > :06:56.province and in the rest of the United Kingdom gets to make this
:06:57. > :07:02.decision. The decision is not what I think the Cabinet thinks what the
:07:03. > :07:05.Prime Minister thinks, he has given us all the decision on what our
:07:06. > :07:09.relationship with the European Union should be. I think it is great that
:07:10. > :07:14.people will have that choice, which no government has given them for
:07:15. > :07:18.over 40 years. It is high time it has happened and I welcome the
:07:19. > :07:19.democracy of this Conservative government in giving people the
:07:20. > :07:21.chance. And tomorrow morning,
:07:22. > :07:23.Good Morning, Ulster will be debating whether we are safer
:07:24. > :07:25.in or out of Europe. They will be hearing
:07:26. > :07:27.from Sir Hugh Orde and getting his views
:07:28. > :07:29.on the security implications That is on BBC Radio Ulster,
:07:30. > :07:33.from 6.30 in the morning. An officer from the police in Kent,
:07:34. > :07:36.who was in charge of investigating the child killer and rapist
:07:37. > :07:39.Robert Howard, threatened to report Detective Superintendent Colin
:07:40. > :07:42.Murray was giving evidence at the inquest into the murder
:07:43. > :07:45.of Arlene Arkinson, who disappeared after a night out in
:07:46. > :08:09.Bundoran in 1994. The sister Arlene Arkinson of with:
:08:10. > :08:19.money, the detective who finally put Robert Howard behind bars. He wanted
:08:20. > :08:23.to establish a pattern of behaviour and central to the case was the
:08:24. > :08:31.abduction and murder of Arlene Arkinson. The PSNI said they had
:08:32. > :08:37.intelligence that she was buried under the floor of her sister and it
:08:38. > :08:43.was at that point he was going to make a complaint to the police
:08:44. > :08:48.ombudsman. He said he never thought the intelligence was credible. To
:08:49. > :08:55.secure a conviction in another case, he had to disprove it. With the
:08:56. > :09:02.permission of the family of Arlene Arkinson, a radar search was carried
:09:03. > :09:13.out which can showed that she was not body gear. Robert Howard The
:09:14. > :09:24.inquest also hear from one of the last people to see her alive. Robert
:09:25. > :09:28.Howard Jock Mr Hegarty and his girlfriend form. He said although he
:09:29. > :09:36.had heard rumours about Arlene Arkinson being sexually assaulted,
:09:37. > :09:47.he says he did not fear for her safety as they drove off. The health
:09:48. > :09:49.minister said any changes with regard to smoking and cars are
:09:50. > :09:52.likely to come forward before 2017. A former DUP councillor has admitted
:09:53. > :09:55.more than 20 fraud charges. Londonderry Magistrates Court
:09:56. > :09:57.was told he made false claims for heating oil,
:09:58. > :09:58.totalling almost ?9,000, Here is our North West
:09:59. > :10:13.reporter, Keiron Tourish. Before the court was 55 Bill Irwin
:10:14. > :10:22.-year-old, who has admitted that totalled 23 charges. The relate to
:10:23. > :10:30.March 2009 two 2014, when he made false claims for heating oil to the
:10:31. > :10:36.assembly. The court was told he had the fuel delivered to his home, but
:10:37. > :10:43.with the costs through his constituency office. It had been
:10:44. > :10:51.paid for through the public purse by the Northern Ireland assembly. It
:10:52. > :10:58.totalled nearly ?9,000. His barrister said he would enter a plea
:10:59. > :11:03.of guilty to all of the charges. The District Court ordered him to
:11:04. > :11:09.cooperate fully with the probation service. During the period of the
:11:10. > :11:18.fences, he was a constituency office worker. He had previously
:11:19. > :11:24.represented the party in the City Council from 1993 until 1997. His
:11:25. > :11:26.sentence will be made at the beginning of April.
:11:27. > :11:29.Work has begun at the site of a controversial oil well
:11:30. > :11:32.Contractors started felling trees at Woodburn Forest,
:11:33. > :11:34.close to Carrickfergus this morning, ahead of a planned exploratory
:11:35. > :11:37.The company, InfraStrata, says measures will be taken
:11:38. > :11:40.to protect the environment, but opponents say chemicals used
:11:41. > :11:48.in the process potentially pose a risk to the environment.
:11:49. > :11:55.We can get a look at the weather now, with Angie.
:11:56. > :12:04.Good evening, we have had the court north-westerly wind as we start the
:12:05. > :12:16.week. A frosty night installer, with a few wintry showers. Today, we did
:12:17. > :12:20.have some showers. They will die away overnight, but as temperatures
:12:21. > :12:30.drop away, it is likely to become icy quite in rural areas. A mate
:12:31. > :12:35.office weather warning for ice is in place. The could be some minor
:12:36. > :12:49.travel disruption. Not a bad day coming up. We have the first these
:12:50. > :12:55.start. -- frosty. After an icy start, it is a fine day for the most
:12:56. > :13:01.part. Some snow showers coming into the northern half of Scotland. Away
:13:02. > :13:11.from it, dry and some decent spills of sunshine. There could be a few
:13:12. > :13:16.showers in the afternoon, particularly around the north Coast.
:13:17. > :13:20.Generally speaking, a lot of great weather, with temperatures 6-7 C at
:13:21. > :13:25.best. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am,
:13:26. > :13:29.during Breakfast, here on BBC One. You can also keep updated
:13:30. > :13:31.with News Online.