31/03/2017 BBC Newsline


31/03/2017

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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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John McAreavey, whose wife Michaela was murdered on their honeymoon

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in Mauritius six years ago, is returning to the island

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to issue a fresh appeal for information about her killing.

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No-one has been convicted of the murder of the Tyrone woman.

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In an exclusive interview John McAreavey has spoken

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to BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson, who's in

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Most people here in Mauritius thought John McAreavey would never

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be back on the island but as we speak he is on his way.

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It is six years since his wife Michaela was

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murdered on honeymoon in a luxury hotel near here.

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John McAreavey is not coming back here alone. With him is his sister

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Claire and Mark Carter, one of Michaela's brothers.

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His decision to return was not a sudden decision.

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He has been planning it for quite some time,

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and before he left I spoke to him, and I asked him what

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he hoped to achieve by coming back here.

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What we're trying to achieve from this whole process is justice,

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and that is justice for Michaela, for our families.

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It is a hard process, and there's no doubt about that.

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But it has been hard ever since Michaela died.

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And I suppose this process isn't just picking up again from 2012.

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This has been an ongoing process for our families for

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The difference now is we are taking a bit more of a lead,

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because we are not content with how things have been happening

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The question many people are asking is why now?

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John McAreavey recently remarried, and here in Mauritius

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there is absolutely no sign of a breakthrough in the police

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investigation but John is adamant that his visit here

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We could sit in a studio in Belfast or wherever and announced that and

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the media might grab that and run with that but we need to appeal to

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the people in Mauritius. We felt that the biggest way

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to achieve that was to Five years ago, two

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hotel workers were found After that the police here launched

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a fresh investigation that it achieved nothing.

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Will John McAreavey's presence here achieve anything?

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Nobody knows but he is prepared to give it a try.

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A pipe bomb has been made safe outside

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People living in the Tamneymore Park area of the Waterside

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had to leave their houses for a time while army bomb disposal experts

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There's increasing concern about the level of dissident

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violence, with four attacks stretching from Strabane to Derry

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A forensic team was carrying out detailed follow-up searches at this

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The army examined a suspicious object at Tamneymore Park

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It followed a paramilitary-style attack on Wednesday evening,

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Two days earlier, a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg

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in Creggan after being forced to lie on the floor by two masked men.

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We still have small groups of people who are

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It is up to us to drag them out of the past.

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There is no place for guns or bombs on our streets.

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Last week in Strabane, the PSNI said there was an attempt to kill

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officers after a roadside bomb in the Townsend Street area.

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As I say, there was a clear message sent at the recent election.

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They want politicians to deliver for them.

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They don't want faceless people doing things on their behalf.

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One DUP MLA has raised his security concerns with the PSNI.

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We have been assured they are doing all they can to bring these people

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to justice and tried to minimise any impact they can have.

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The police in the city have issued an appeal for information.

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They want to hear from anyone who saw suspicious

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activity around Gobnascale to come forward.

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The bodies of a man and a woman have been recovered from the river

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The couple, on holiday from Germany, had been on a hired boat.

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They were last seen at a restaurant in Carrick-on-Shannon

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The body of the man, who was 40 and originally from Roscommon,

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was found this afternoon at the town's marina.

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The woman, who was found a few hours later, was English and in her 30s.

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Postmortem examinations will be carried out on Monday.

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Detectives are investigating after a man's body was found

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It is thought the body may have washed ashore.

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A year ago all of the local hospitals went smoke-free.

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Staff, patients and visitors were banned from

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The Western Trust first adopted the policy in 2014.

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Linzi Lima has been finding out if people are adhering to the ban.

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Health trusts here declared themselves smoke-free zones.

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Smoking is not allowed anywhere on hospital grounds.

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A year on, has the ban made any difference?

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The fact we went smoke-free last year, 2016, it is a slow work

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in process but it is still improving, which is the main thing.

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There is a lot less litter as well so it is improving.

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Joe is the smoking warden at the Belfast Trust.

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There's no smoking on the grounds, OK?

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You just have to be compassionate with them.

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Some people might have had a relative that just died.

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They might have been told they have a terminal illness,

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so you have to be compassionate in your approach and have sympathy

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The smoke-free policy is a ministerial directive, not law,

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meaning those lighting up on hospital grounds

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may be asked to put it out but won't face prosecution.

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We are certainly seeing an improvement on all of our sites.

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Although, I have to say, and be totally honest,

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that it is still a challenge, and particularly a challenge

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on our big sites such as the Royal and the City Hospital.

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Maybe not at the front of the hospital

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but there should be somewhere for long-stay patients

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People who smoke and are in hospital, what do they do?

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Especially when I'm on my way to the cancer ward.

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I think they should have an allocated area for them,

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maybe not just at the front door because sometimes it's busy

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I don't smoke personally, so not favourable!

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Undoubtedly at entrances and grounds at some hospitals,

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The trust still say their policy is working and those

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Through the use of a warden and education policy,

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they hope those numbers will reduce even further.

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And just one football result in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division,

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where Bray Wanderers beat Derry City 3-2.

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The Candystripers took to the pitch in shirts

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honouring their former captain, Ryan McBride, who died

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It's the start of the weekend and although it isn't likely to be quite

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as good as last weekend there is some fine weather. It's a weekend of

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two halves, we started on a showery note but the showers will fade away,

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it turns drier and brighter but cooler air so quite chilly at night

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and even daytime not as mild as before. The showers will use

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weighted night to the north so many places to running dry, even tonight

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is cooler than last night, and tomorrow we should see some bright

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spells, maybe initially in the morning and then later, in between

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we have showers so a bit of an April fool, tomorrow starts after right

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and bright but showers will edge through the later part of the

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morning. Low pressure is the dominating feature on Britain and

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Ireland as a whole so that brings a mix of sunshine and showers, some

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places may avoid the showers but were they do come along they could

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be heavy and thundery. We will have those into the afternoon, moving

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south and east, here they could be heavy with under but they clear away

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later on, so a drier and brighter end to the day but a north-westerly

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wind means temperatures are not as high. Tomorrow night cold, there

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could be grown frost on Sunday morning but does that of the two

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days, mainly dry with bright and sunny spells.

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