21/12/2016 BBC Newsline


21/12/2016

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A man's in a critical condition after being stabbed

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It happened shortly before eight o'clock this evening.

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An area on Donegall Square North was cordoned off.

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The Christmas market in the grounds of City Hall was closed early

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The daughters of a county Antrim woman who drowned after being thrown

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from a bridge say justice has not been done after her murderer was

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The body of 61-year-old Pauline Carmichael was found

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on the shores of Lough Neagh in February last year.

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Her partner's son, 38-year-old former soldier Alan Foster,

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Our north east reporter Sara Girvin was at Belfast Crown Court.

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Pauline Carmichael was a mother of seven and grandmother to 16.

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It was a row with Alan Foster that saw her

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The court heard after she had called police over his

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partying, he picked her up while she was still in her pyjamas.

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A neighbour heard her screaming, pleading with

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He walks with her over her shoulders from the flat they shared for nearly

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a mile before throwing her off a bridge.

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She drowned in the water 40 feet below and was washed away.

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A postmortem examination revealed she

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had sustained a broken bone in her throat as well as multiple

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Her daughters said she would have been terrified in the

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Her biggest fear of all was water and

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that was the thing that took her life.

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We can only imagine what she felt and was thinking when she fell over

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The court heard it was accepted that Foster suffered from

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post-traumatic stress disorder as a result

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The prosecution barrister said he knew exactly what he was

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Foster had previously denied the killing before pleading guilty

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after the jury for his trial had been sworn in.

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Ms Carmichael's daughters said a minimum of nine

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years was not enough for a life sentence.

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We feel justice has not been done today.

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Not only have they taken our mum, they have taken our

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The thing we have to listen to, the things

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that she went through, has damaged us as a family.

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The judge said the circumstances of the murder were

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particularly callous and described it as a wicked act but he said he

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had taken into consideration Foster's guilty plea and the remorse

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Foster will now spend at least nine years in prison before

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The Executive is considering the complete closure

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of its controversial Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.

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It's exploring the option of buying out the contracts of scheme

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beneficiaries who are due to receive subsidy payments over

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Our Economics and Business editor John Campbell reports.

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It is the green energy scheme which has turned into a financial

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A badly designed, poorly managed subsidy system means the executive

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are facing an overspend which will hit its budget for 20 years.

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Its priority now is to find some way to reduce that ?400 million

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overspend the First Minister alluded to earlier this week.

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The hope is to reduce the cost of the scheme to the executive's

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budget but they are subject to consider further work.

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This matters as we want to be fair to all those who responded

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to the incentive as it was intended to operate and also

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to ensure our process results the abuse of the scheme.

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I understand there our two main options on the table.

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Reducing the rate in which subsidies are paid.

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The second is to close the scheme entirely.

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That would mean giving the beneficiaries a one-off

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compensation payment but ending the stream of subsidies.

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The executive would like any buyouts to be voluntary but it is understood

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to have taken legal advice about making them compulsory.

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The cost of that would probably be at least ?60 million.

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One opposition and MLA with a legal background is warning such a process

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If you take away something that you raise expectation to enjoy,

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If they are not happy with the compensation,

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they will have to have an appeal mechanism.

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It could come very convoluted and a very extensive process.

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They have known about this for a year at least and should have

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been doing this corrective work well in advance.

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We still don't know who set up this flawed scheme

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The executive, the DUP, they would love this issue to go away.

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If they can find a way to close the scheme entirely,

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It is unlikely to be straightforward with legal and financial

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A final decision is expected to be announced here

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The Irish Football Association has tonight expressed what it

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calls its severe disappointment at the fine imposed by Fifa

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for acts of remembrance at Windsor Park last month.

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The IFA says it cannot appeal the near ?12,000 fine

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and it has decided not to pursue any further legal action.

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The incident happened during Northern Ireland's World Cup

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qualifier against Azerbaijan, when fans formed a poppy mosaic,

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a wreath was laid and there was a minute's silence.

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The police say nearly 250 motorists have been

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arrested following random breath tests since the start

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of their Christmas drink-driving campaign three weeks ago.

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Previously they could stop drivers only if they suspected they had been

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drinking or had committed a traffic offence.

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The PSNI are the first force in the UK to be allowed to conduct

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A former commercial manager at the Irish Football Association

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has won almost ?30,000 in compensation at a fair

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Tracey Campbell was awarded the compensation after claiming

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Tracey Campbell was the commercial manager until she was made redundant

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An employment tribunal found it wasn't

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Her boss at the time was Una O'Reilly, a

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She was criticised by the tribunal and

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it concluded the redundancy process was a sham and was part of a drive

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by Ms O'Reilly to replace the claimant with someone else.

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Una O'Reilly gave evidence, as did Jerry

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Crawson, the IFA director of corporate services.

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The tribunal found their evidence was

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unsatisfactory and evasive in several respects.

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Tracey Campbell's evidence was clear, convincing and

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The tribunal concluded she had been treated unfairly by the

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IFA and awarded her ?28,700 in compensation.

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Since being made redundant, she now has a new job.

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Tonight, the IFA issued a statement stopped they said they did accept

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the ruling of the tribunal and would not be appealing the decision.

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They said they would learn from any mistakes which were made.

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More variety than a Christmas selection box in our weather today.

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We have that today and those showers will continue overnight with

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temperatures close to freezing. Ice is a risk and there could be some

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snow over the higher ground. Those showers are driven in from the West.

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There is some brightness to be found. Underneath the showers, very

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nasty indeed. Sleet and snow over the hills and it is cold and

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miserable with highs of seven Celsius. We are in that showery zone

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of whether. Strong winds are coming in. Try and bright. As we go through

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the afternoon, we see a change in the wind direction. That is the sign

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of Storm Barbra. It is one of the busiest travel days of the holiday

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period on Friday. A weather warning for strong winds and gusts in excess

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of 80 miles an hour. Not a very nice day in terms of six hours of rain

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but it introduces some mild air. No sooner is Barbra out of the way than

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we get a pause on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day, the next storm is

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with us and we have some more mild air.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at six twenty five in the morning

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