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The father of a young student knocked down and killed by a drunk | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
driver in south Belfast says he's disgusted with the 7 year sentence | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
18 year old Enda Dolan died when he was hit | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
31 year old David Lee Stewart of Gray's Park Avenue in Belvoir | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
will serve three and half years of his sentence in jail, | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
and then he'll be on supervised licence on release. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Today, a grieving family came to hear the | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
punishment for the drunk driver that killed their loved one. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
So many other parents have stood in our shoes, | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
disappointed and disgusted on the sentence and many more | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
will unfortunately do so in the future unless something | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
is done to deter individuals from driving under the influence | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Enda Dolan was full of promise, a talented musician and athlete. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
He was in his first term at Queens University, | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
In the early hours, Enda was walking along this | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
section of the Malone Road towards his student accommodation | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
when the van mounted the curb and hit him, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
carrying him for 800 metres and leaving him with fatal injuries. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
This crash barrier wasn't here at the time, it had been | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
removed three weeks earlier and hadn't been replaced. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
The man driving was David Lee Stewart. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
In the passenger seat, a 21-year-old. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Both of them had been drinking in the city centre. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
David Lee Stewart had also taken drugs. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
After the collision, the men drove from the scene, | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
Today, the judge described Enda Dolan's death as | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
He said the amount David Lee Stewart had to drink before getting | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
into his van would not have been out of place on a stag night. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Previously, the court had heard he had 13 alcoholic drinks. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
But the judge also said the men demonstrated remorse | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
and he had to take that into account when sentencing. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Stewart was given a seven-year sentence, half of it | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
The other man wasn't given a custodial sentence. | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
Instead, his punishment is 50 hours community service and | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
The court also heard about the impact of the death | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
The image of our son lying dead in the Royal Victoria Hospital | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
It has absolutely ruined our lives, all of us. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
And there has been absolutely no remorse, non-whatsoever. | :02:43. | :03:03. | |
We think about all the time, over the past year and a half, we wonder | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
how his appearance would have changed, what sort of a young man he | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
would be and how he would be progressing in his career had his | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
life not being cut short. We have to deal with the loss of him everyday | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
for the rest of our lives. The mist family celebrations, the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Christmases, the family holidays, the 21st birthday he will not have, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
the exams he never sat, the graduation never attended, the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
engagement, the wedding and the grandchildren that will never be. | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
This is our life sentence. The family have also been critical | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
of the legal process. The legal system in Northern Ireland | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
is a disgrace and Also, the way the victims's families | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
are treated is appalling This family, still distraught, | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
so they will take stock of today's judgment before | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
considering any appeal process. Police say they're investigating | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
what they've called a serious incident in an area | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
of parkland outside Dungannon. The say they're working to establish | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
the circumstances of the incident, at Peatlands Park, but have not | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
released any further details. A three hundred million pound | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
project to regenerate a run-down part of inner-city Belfast has been | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
brought to a halt. A government department has | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
withdrawn its support - which was crucial - | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
believing the private firms involved More from our business | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
correspondent, Julian O'Neill: Royal Avenue, gay way to Belfast | :04:34. | :04:52. | |
city centre but behind this main road lies the black -- maniac | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
gateway. A regeneration plan was seen | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
as the solution, housing units, Until now, the DSD was on board | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
and its powers were important in buildings like this pub | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
which needed to be knocked down We are not against redevelopment, | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
far from it, but there is more than one place to do it and drawing | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
a red line around an area The regeneration zone was passed | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
and the DSD had been working with two developers | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
who were going to privately The other parties in what was | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
a three-way development partnership have expressed surprise | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
and disappointment at They have written to its minister, | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
asking for an urgent meeting in the hope he can be | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
persuaded to change his mind. That, though, is | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
an unlikely scenario. This DSD letter makes clear | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
the developers had not The DSD has no alternative plans, | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
but other options can now be explored to bring | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
the regeneration the area needs. There had been opposition to this | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
scheme, primarily because it involved as many as 3,000 flats | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
or houses for students. Businesses say the area | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
is crying out for a new idea. Our area suffers, as you can see, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
by looking around the streets, We are basically the entry point | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
for Belfast city centre, to the end of Belfast Harbour | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
and the airports, so we need Local residents are relieved | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
but angry, claiming the plan was skewed | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
against community housing needs. We have lost practically 100 social | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
houses in this development. Now it has fallen through, | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
is the DSD going to return The cranes are all to do | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
with Ulster University but the wait for action | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
in the streets nearby goes on, with the solution probably now | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
falling to a new minister The sister of an Irish teenager | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
facing a possible death sentence in Egypt was in Belfast today | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
to meet the family's lawyers. The Egyptian government has rejected | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
allegations of ill-treatment of Ibrahim Halawa from Dublin, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
who's been in jail without trial He was arrested after being caught | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
up in anti-government protests. This report from our | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Home Affairs Correspondent, This is a moment Egyptian | :07:25. | :07:25. | |
security forces ended a siege at a mosque | :07:26. | :07:37. | |
Demonstrators had fled there after violent clashes | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
They were charged with murder and a range of other serious | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
Ibrahim Halawa, from Dublin, was one of them. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
He is the son of Ireland's most senior Muslim | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
Three of his sisters were also arrested but were later | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
One of them was in Belfast today to meet the family's | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
She is deeply concerned about the way her brother has been | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
He was electrocuted, he was beaten, he was tortured. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
He never attended a trial, he has no access | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
Those concerns are shared by the United Nations. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
It has emerged that officials from the High | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
Commissioner for human rights road to the Egyptian government last | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
In their letter, the United Nations team described Ibrahim | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Halawa's case as a matter warranting immediate attention. | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
They say he had been shot in the hand during his | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
arrest and did not receive proper medical treatment -- in the hands. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Saying he was held in deplorable conditions, the letter adds that | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
security officers objected him to abuse. | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
And it was in contravention of basic guarantees | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
fair trial and due process of law that he had not had access to a | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
In response, the Egyptian government denied that Ibrahim | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Halawa was shot in the hand or had been beaten in the prison. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
They said a medical examination had found | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
traces of old wounds but no recent injuries and described his general | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
It did address the concerns raised about | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Ibrahim Halawa's family say they were on | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
holiday at the time of the siege and sought | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
refuge in the mosque to | :09:29. | :09:29. | |
They have welcomed the UN intervention. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
It is very important to our campaign, it is proof of what we | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
have been saying for two and a half years, | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
people have been denying this | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
But the family and their legal team said the | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
It has got to a stage now where the family | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
believe it is time for the | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
glove to come off, as it were, it is time to put pressure | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Diplomacy may not work in circumstances where it | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
is a grave breach of international law | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
and Ibrahim Halawa's rights as | :10:09. | :10:09. | |
The family say they are alarmed by reports from | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
Egypt in recent days that all of those charged may have been found | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
Hospital Emergency Departments here had an increase in the number | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
of patients last month compared to the same time last year. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Latest figures show there was a rise of 8.6 per cent. | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
68 per cent of patients were treated, discharged or admitted | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
That was despite the ministerial target set at 95%. | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
There are exactly 100 days to go until the start of this | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Team Ireland and Team GB marked the occasion today with celebrations | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
And for boxer Paddy Barnes it was an extra special day - | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
he's to be Ireland's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony in Rio. | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
He will have a chant is to make Olympic history by being the first | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
Irish as leapt to win medals at three successive games. He won | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
medals at both the Beijing and London games. This is an added | :11:19. | :11:30. | |
bonus. I am delighted, over the moon, it is like winning a medal. It | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
means that much. I hold it in as high regard as winning the medals. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
The weather forecast now, with Barra Best: | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Prepare for a chilly night as temperatures fall close to freezing | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
and even below. With a light wind we are likely to see frosty patches | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
developing. It will be a chilly start to Thursday but largely dry | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
before we see rain coming in and wants a queer is out of the way it | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
will turn colder. A frosty start, -- it will clear out of the way. It | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
pushes his way is worse, across much of Britain, some western areas with | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
showers but largely dry with sunshine out there at that backward | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
to enjoy. The will of art that bag of that parts of England. Some snow | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
over high ground. Some outbreaks of ring, but sunny spells further | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
north. Temperatures will stable low average for the time of year, | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
rounding out at seven or 8 degrees. It will feel chilly with the western | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
winds. Another cold night as we go into Friday, Friday we are likely to | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
see a bit of wet weather but a fair amount of dry weather and sunshine, | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
but there was tempered yours will stay below normal for the time of | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
year. Looking to the bicolour day weekend, some dry weather on | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Saturday, Sunday is shaping up to be cloudier. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at six twenty five in the morning | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
It's time to elect a new Assembly, but who will you be voting for? | :13:23. | :13:45. |