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A man's in a critical condition after being stabbed | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
It happened shortly before eight o'clock this evening. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
An area on Donegall Square North was cordoned off. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
The Christmas market in the grounds of City Hall was closed early | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
The daughters of a county Antrim woman who drowned after being thrown | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
from a bridge say justice has not been done after her murderer was | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The body of 61-year-old Pauline Carmichael was found | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
on the shores of Lough Neagh in February last year. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Her partner's son, 38-year-old former soldier Alan Foster, | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Our north east reporter Sara Girvin was at Belfast Crown Court. | :00:47. | :00:58. | |
Pauline Carmichael was a mother of seven and grandmother to 16. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
It was a row with Alan Foster that saw her | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
The court heard after she had called police over his | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
partying, he picked her up while she was still in her pyjamas. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
A neighbour heard her screaming, pleading with | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
He walks with her over her shoulders from the flat they shared for nearly | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
a mile before throwing her off a bridge. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
She drowned in the water 40 feet below and was washed away. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
A postmortem examination revealed she | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
had sustained a broken bone in her throat as well as multiple | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Her daughters said she would have been terrified in the | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
Her biggest fear of all was water and | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
that was the thing that took her life. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
We can only imagine what she felt and was thinking when she fell over | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
The court heard it was accepted that Foster suffered from | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
post-traumatic stress disorder as a result | :01:57. | :01:57. | |
The prosecution barrister said he knew exactly what he was | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
Foster had previously denied the killing before pleading guilty | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
after the jury for his trial had been sworn in. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Ms Carmichael's daughters said a minimum of nine | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
years was not enough for a life sentence. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
We feel justice has not been done today. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Not only have they taken our mum, they have taken our | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
The thing we have to listen to, the things | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
that she went through, has damaged us as a family. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
The judge said the circumstances of the murder were | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
particularly callous and described it as a wicked act but he said he | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
had taken into consideration Foster's guilty plea and the remorse | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
Foster will now spend at least nine years in prison before | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
The Executive is considering the complete closure | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
of its controversial Renewable Heat Incentive scheme. | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
It's exploring the option of buying out the contracts of scheme | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
beneficiaries who are due to receive subsidy payments over | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Our Economics and Business editor John Campbell reports. | :03:20. | :03:31. | |
It is the green energy scheme which has turned into a financial | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
A badly designed, poorly managed subsidy system means the executive | :03:35. | :03:46. | |
are facing an overspend which will hit its budget for 20 years. | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
Its priority now is to find some way to reduce that ?400 million | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
overspend the First Minister alluded to earlier this week. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
The hope is to reduce the cost of the scheme to the executive's | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
budget but they are subject to consider further work. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
This matters as we want to be fair to all those who responded | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
to the incentive as it was intended to operate and also | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
to ensure our process results the abuse of the scheme. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
I understand there our two main options on the table. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Reducing the rate in which subsidies are paid. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
The second is to close the scheme entirely. | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
That would mean giving the beneficiaries a one-off | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
compensation payment but ending the stream of subsidies. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
The executive would like any buyouts to be voluntary but it is understood | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
to have taken legal advice about making them compulsory. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
The cost of that would probably be at least ?60 million. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
One opposition and MLA with a legal background is warning such a process | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
If you take away something that you raise expectation to enjoy, | :04:49. | :05:03. | |
If they are not happy with the compensation, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
they will have to have an appeal mechanism. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
It could come very convoluted and a very extensive process. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
They have known about this for a year at least and should have | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
been doing this corrective work well in advance. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
We still don't know who set up this flawed scheme | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
The executive, the DUP, they would love this issue to go away. | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
If they can find a way to close the scheme entirely, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
It is unlikely to be straightforward with legal and financial | :05:34. | :05:45. | |
A final decision is expected to be announced here | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
The Irish Football Association has tonight expressed what it | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
calls its severe disappointment at the fine imposed by Fifa | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
for acts of remembrance at Windsor Park last month. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
The IFA says it cannot appeal the near ?12,000 fine | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
and it has decided not to pursue any further legal action. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
The incident happened during Northern Ireland's World Cup | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
qualifier against Azerbaijan, when fans formed a poppy mosaic, | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
a wreath was laid and there was a minute's silence. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
The police say nearly 250 motorists have been | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
arrested following random breath tests since the start | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
of their Christmas drink-driving campaign three weeks ago. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Previously they could stop drivers only if they suspected they had been | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
drinking or had committed a traffic offence. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
The PSNI are the first force in the UK to be allowed to conduct | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
A former commercial manager at the Irish Football Association | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
has won almost ?30,000 in compensation at a fair | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
Tracey Campbell was awarded the compensation after claiming | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Tracey Campbell was the commercial manager until she was made redundant | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
An employment tribunal found it wasn't | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
Her boss at the time was Una O'Reilly, a | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
She was criticised by the tribunal and | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
it concluded the redundancy process was a sham and was part of a drive | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
by Ms O'Reilly to replace the claimant with someone else. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Una O'Reilly gave evidence, as did Jerry | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
Crawson, the IFA director of corporate services. | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
The tribunal found their evidence was | :07:41. | :07:41. | |
unsatisfactory and evasive in several respects. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Tracey Campbell's evidence was clear, convincing and | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
The tribunal concluded she had been treated unfairly by the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
IFA and awarded her ?28,700 in compensation. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Since being made redundant, she now has a new job. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Tonight, the IFA issued a statement stopped they said they did accept | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
the ruling of the tribunal and would not be appealing the decision. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
They said they would learn from any mistakes which were made. | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
More variety than a Christmas selection box in our weather today. | :08:22. | :08:35. | |
We have that today and those showers will continue overnight with | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
temperatures close to freezing. Ice is a risk and there could be some | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
snow over the higher ground. Those showers are driven in from the West. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
There is some brightness to be found. Underneath the showers, very | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
nasty indeed. Sleet and snow over the hills and it is cold and | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
miserable with highs of seven Celsius. We are in that showery zone | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
of whether. Strong winds are coming in. Try and bright. As we go through | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
the afternoon, we see a change in the wind direction. That is the sign | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
of Storm Barbra. It is one of the busiest travel days of the holiday | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
period on Friday. A weather warning for strong winds and gusts in excess | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
of 80 miles an hour. Not a very nice day in terms of six hours of rain | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
but it introduces some mild air. No sooner is Barbra out of the way than | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
we get a pause on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day, the next storm is | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
with us and we have some more mild air. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at six twenty five in the morning | :09:57. | :10:00. |