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A father has been found NOT guilty of murdering his baby daughter. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Caragh Walsh was three months old when she died two years ago. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Her father, Christopher O'Neill, from the Whiterock Road in west | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Belfast, was charged with her murder. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Today a jury at Craigavon Crown Court sitting in Armagh | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Throughout the four-week trial, Christopher O'Neill denied any | :00:25. | :00:37. | |
suggestion that he'd harmed Caragh, saying that | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
The 26-year-old from West Belfast was accused of killing his | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
three-month-old baby daughter by shaking her violently | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
whilst in a rage at her home in February 2014. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
During the trial, he said that he had shaken her, | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
trying to revive her, he thought she was dying. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Baby Caragh died in hospital two days later. | :01:01. | :01:12. | |
In Craigavon Crown Court, the jury of ten men and one woman | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
found by majority verdict of at least ten to one he was not | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
In the gallery behind him, the baby's mother stood up | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
and shouted, you killed my baby, my baby is dead because of you. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
She was led from the court room with her family. | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Still in the dock, Mr O'Neill put his head in his hands. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
When the judge said he was free to leave, his family applauded | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
and hugged him and said, we love you. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Mr O'Neill's solicitor said it had been a difficult | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
A coroner has criticised police for failing to find a young man | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
who died after going missing from a mental-health unit. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
His body was found ten weeks later close to the unit | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
22-year-old James Fenton, from Bangor, had been identified | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
as "high-risk" after telling staff he wanted to kill himself. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
The family of James Fenton at the coroner's court this afternoon | :02:14. | :02:26. | |
for what marked the end of long, difficult and at times | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
It's been a horrendously long road, not just for a few months, but | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
22-year-old James Fenton went missing from Ward 27 | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
at the Mental Health Unit in early July 2010. | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
And police were called in to search the grounds | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
They failed to find the missing man, whose body was discovered | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
less than 40 metres from the Mental Health | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
The coroner was very critical of the police response when James | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Fenton went missing from the mental health unit. | :03:02. | :03:15. | |
A police ombudsman report was also critical of how the case | :03:16. | :03:37. | |
was handled and 12 officers were subsequently disciplined. | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
The PSNI has since changed its policy and practices on missing | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
persons as a direct result of the Fenton case. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
The coroner described the actions of the hospital staff at the time | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
But he had harder words for the PSNI. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Joe McCrisken said consideration should have been given | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
to a police dog search, which may have led to Mr Fenton | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
being found shortly after he'd absconded. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
He described this was a major failing that could have prevented | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
the prolonged trauma suffered by the family. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Today, the PSNI issued a wholehearted apology to the Fenton | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
family for the police failings in this case. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
They have changed how to search for a missing person but they cannot | :04:07. | :04:24. | |
make the excuse of not enough funding for | :04:25. | :04:25. | |
mental health, things have to change. | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
How many more people have to lose their lives? | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
The coroner found that, due to advanced decomposition, | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
the cause of James Fenton's death was unascertainable, | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
although it was his view that the young man died | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
shortly after he climbed over the gate and absconded from | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
the Ulster Hospital's Mental Health Unit. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Mervyn Jess, BBC Newsline, at Belfast Coroner's Court. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
A care worker found guilty of abusing elderly residents | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
at a care home in west Belfast has been sentenced to four | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
41-year-old Lisa Cullen from Lagmore Drive in Dunmurry | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
was sentenced after pleading guilty to assaulting a whistleblower | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
from the home at a previous court appearance. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Relatives of those who were cared for by Ms Cullen were at the court | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
It was the hardest thing we have ever | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
done was to put our model there, and to find out | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
that she hit my mother, it's soul destroying. | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
She told my husband she had full Alzheimer's, | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
was like a baby, and was better to go out and run around traffic. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Plans by the Health Minister, Michelle O'Neill, to tackle hospital | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
waiting lists have been criticised by the DUP leader, Arlene Foster. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
In a letter, Mrs Foster responded to Minister O'Neill's | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
?31 million plan to treat patients who have been | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
The DUP leader accused Sinn Fein of electioneering. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
But Sinn Fein hit back, saying the DUP were trying to deflect | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
A County Antrim man says he's been left in shock, | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
after a slurry tank crashed through a wall into his front | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Our north-east reporter, Sara Girvin, has the story. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
CCTV shows the dramatic moment a slurry tank crashes | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
It missed the home itself, in Glenavy, by less than a metre. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
The homeowner, who was in the property at the time, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
said he's just glad no-one was hurt. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Well, obviously quite shocked, but relieved, | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
If somebody was standing here, you can see where parts of the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
It could have been worse if myself, my children or | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
my family had been there, postman, anybody at all! | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
The Belfast Road was closed for a time while the car, | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
tractor and slurry tank involved in the crash were removed. | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
Oil also had to be cleaned up, but the road has reopened. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Rugby now, and Ulster hung on to secure a 24-18 | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
win against Edinburgh at the Kingspan Stadium | :06:59. | :06:59. | |
The pre-match buzz about Marcel Keizer sea but Bradley rumbled over | :07:00. | :07:17. | |
for the opening try. Ulster quickly responded. Marshall burst through | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
from close range. Centre Darren Cave ran out the second wide out on the | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
left. The third try was made by the brilliance of Charles Piutau. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Bolster had the bonus point in the bag before half-time, Stockdale | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
putting the finishing touches to a slick move. But after the break | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
Edinburgh came back into it. This try set up a nervy finish. After a | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
series of stoppage in -- stoppages for injuries and a penalty the hosts | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
held on for a hard earned wind. Next up for Ulster, the visit of Glasgow | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Warriors in eight days. They will be hoping it is a little less tense. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
And now here with the late weather is Cecilia Daly. | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
It will take old this weekend so make sure you are wrapped up nice | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
and warm. Tonight it looks like it could be quite frosty in some | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
places, temperatures could drop as low as five below zero and parts of | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the countryside. Not everywhere will see a thrust but many places. The | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
day of Saturday frosty. It will be largely dry bed feeling cold, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
especially coastal areas with the breeze coming off the sea. Gradually | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
the frost lifts, there will be sunshine at times tomorrow morning, | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
also a cold wind of the North Sea, dragging in snow showers for eastern | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
parts of Scotland and England. Further west it is drier and some of | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
the best weather will be across the west coast of Ireland. If you are | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
travelling to Rome to see Ireland play, it will be milder, | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
temperatures in the low teens, live coverage on BBC Radio Ulster. 5 | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
degrees the us if we are lucky, a few snow flurries to some places. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
Sunday will be cloudier, cold in the breeze, a bit of sunshine and the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
possibility of one or two winteriness flurries. Next week it | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
still looks largely dry and breezy but we should start a sepia pictures | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
come up. By the time we get to the middle of the week it will be | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
noticeably Marburg, with temperatures in double figures but | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
also some rain around. -- noticeably warmer. | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 4.05 tomorrow afternoon. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
In the meantime you can keep up to date with news online. | :10:01. | :10:02. |