Outrage as newspaper in Mauritius prints death photos of honeymoon bride Michaela McAreavey
Family and Irish government condemn publication of pictures in strongest possible terms
Published Monday, July 16, 2012, 8:03 AM
Updated Monday, July 16, 2012, 8:18 AM
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The Legends Hotel complex, where the young bride was murdered, and Michaela Harte
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“The whole conduct of this affair from the start has not inspired confidence and I think the family have been treated in an appalling way and I think rarely have I been so inspired by the courage, the humanity and the faith of a family in the face of such tragedy.
“To find that this is the way that they’ve been treated and abused, it really is beyond belief.”
Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein representative Martin McGuinness claimed that the photographs had come from within the Mauritian ‘system’.
McGuinness said: “Just when it seems the system in Mauritius cannot heap any more pain and anguish on to the McAreavey and Harte families, a local newspaper publishes pictures of Michaela’s body,.
“The decision of the newspaper in Mauritius to publish crime scene photographs, including pictures of Michaela’s body, is an outrageous abuse that cannot be justified in any way.
“People in Mauritius need to realise that the eyes of the international community are firmly focused on their country and their justice system in the wake of the brutal murder of Michaela and the absolute failure to deliver justice for John McAreavey and the rest of family.
“This case will not simply go away as some in Mauritius seem to hope. I can assure the Mauritian authorities that people in Ireland will continue to keep a focus on this case until justice is done.”
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jacersagain | Jul 18, 2012, 12:23 AM EDT
Nope.. the gremlins are at work again... sirry Greg, catch you and yr arguments another time
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 11:06 PM EDT
Ah well now Greg… you and I know, and every Catholic - of the Roman, Greek, Eastern Orthodox, Russian, Coptic, Chinese, American, of the Messianic Jews and of the many other Catholic Church persuasion - already know that mysterious miracle which happens in the consecration of the bread and wine into the substance of the Living Body of your Christ, the Holy Eucharist, by the blessing wave of the hands of a consecrated priest of each those member Churches of the Body of Christ. It’s nice to see you challenge it. It means you’re already on the search for truth that is there to be found. Good luck and God bless t’ya on your journey. I can promise you this much: if ye thought the beautiful landscape of Ireland was beautiful to behold, you’re dead right. If you have the means and the time to launch yrself on yr obstreperous questioning, then be prepared to get out of yr armchair. Such a journey is going to be rewarded by much more beauty… of land, sea, mountain and the love of your Christ (which you don't ask for< or seek, so it would seem (Whack! pardon me unintentional stuff!). May I suggest some places for you to start? Without your permission I will bother me barmy to tell you as others bothered their barmiest to tell me where to send my barmy. (More...)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT
Yep, I agree Greg… there are gremlins at work in the ICentral beating heart. You only hafta click on the bits on the right: “Most Commented, Most Read and Most Emailed” to see how the Gremlins work. All sent virtually oof scren. (Pardon the mispeelings). Anyways Greg, I’m gonna come back atcha strongly on yr last few posts, if you’ll pardon me that. Your wimpish replies demand honest strong challenges. So pls bear w/me and give us readers yr actual life truthful responses. I’ll read them tomorrow, if I’m alive. (All my comments following)
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GregShox | Jul 17, 2012, 08:59 PM EDT
Looks like the moderators are getting mixed up here. Very strange name-changing going on.
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GregShox | Jul 17, 2012, 08:52 PM EDT
There are no Mauritian asylum-seekers in Ireland, a mhaicín. Educate yourself, a phlaidhce mór.
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 08:43 PM EDT
The dervilishly devilish Gremlins are at work again in the Irish Central computers… I did not post the post shown at 01.53pm EDT yesterday (17th July). Methinks it was Greg who shudda been credited with that… >>> For what it’s worth, my comment would be that Greg is the shockie racist one. Neither myself, who’s not afraid to speak out against foreigners from any land idling in my country and sucking up my tax-payer’s contributions, as opposed to those whom we Irish genuinely adopt as asylum seekers, nor evergreen Georgie Dillon Boy (Wou’nee) would ever stoop so low as to post that comment. We Irish know the difference between debaters and de baiters. Sea, sin an fhírinne.
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GregShox | Jul 17, 2012, 08:12 PM EDT
As opposed to the perfectly sensible Catholic belief that a priest waving his hands at a biscuit turns it into the body of a man who died 2000 years ago? What does any of this religious nonsense have to do with the murder of Michaela McAreavey?
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 08:08 PM EDT
(“final “more”) As a Catholic, I would never wish the fireworks of injustice on anyone anymore than I would wish the pain of never again seeing the glory of God upon an unrepentant sinner. I’m an amateur photographer. I certainly would not photograph the pain of anyone’s suffering, in this life or our next and final one. Let justice be delivered under this case. (Yes, I know there are many other injustices… but we Catholics know when to call a spade a spade in both low- and high-profile cases (OJ Simpson, anyone?). Owning up is the only penitence every sinner will have to eventually serve before God. As the saints advise us all, it is better for our human sanity that the sinner owns up before the people for the sin too. I hope the Mauritian killer(s) of Michaela does, for his/their own sanity and that of his family, for surely, they know too.)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT
(…more) Similarly, Hindu believers believe in nothing but of drifting through life because they are going to come from being dogs, cats, monkeys, elephants or cows etc., to being human enough to really face their God: they believe they don’t have a choice because their God is going to re-incarnate them to do and be better than they were in their previous life, over and over again, perhaps turning them from human beings back to being dogs, elephants or monkeys etc over again until their ‘God’ thinks it has got it right enough for them to answer up before its holy presence; in other words, they believe that they have nothing to answer to or for and that they have no responsibility whatever, even in criminal events... life will go on and on until righted by their God. So, leaving the definitive, end-of-human-life beliefs of Catholics and other Christians in eternal soul-life with God or the excruciating real h*ll of its absence in my fellow (Mauritian) Catholics and Christians aside, you already find you have a huge set of false beliefs existing in Mauritius, the perfect setting for where no one is to blame, the only island - in the world - where the now-extinct dodo ‘bird’ was found and killed off in the same set of beliefs. (more…)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 07:43 PM EDT
(…more) Before I do tell more, let’s take note of some statistics about the people of Mauritius: They are mostly Hindu (Asian-Indian), one-third of the population is Catholic (most French-Catholic, with some Asian-Indian Catholics with them), a few are Muslim and fewer are Buddhist (some of which Buddhists are also Catholics) with sprinklings of other invaders like the Chinese. I have to go back and tell you of my experiences of working with diverse people in foreign lands. I know, from enormous business and personal experience, that most Muslims believe it is totally “ok” to tell a lie; after all, Allah decides it’s “ok” for them to tell a lie, it’s Allah’s “will” whatever they decide in life (even to teaching their children that it’s ok to behead who they believe is one who doesn’t believe in what they believe). (...more)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 07:37 PM EDT
(…more ) It has to be remembered that recently in Sth Africa, relatively nearby to Mauritius where the Mauritians would have read about this news, just a couple of fresh years ago, a honeymooning newly-married man was accused of having his new wife murdered by some other people while on honeymoon (that case is still under investigation). That case must surely have been in the minds of everybody in Mauritius - but John McAreavey was clearly evidenced to not have had any involvement despite the fact that he was the one who discovered his new wife dead in their honeymoon suite. He was after all, witnessed to be quietly (and as it turned out in evidence) to have been waiting for his new wife to come back to their table with tea biscuits. Yet the defendant lawyers made a meal of it, to no avail, that he was *wow!* the one to discover his new bride dead - a sheer attempt at deflection of justice that was rightly dismissed. Now I have to tell you (more…)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 07:32 PM EDT
(…more) D'ya know what? I refused to read and follow the trial as presented in the news, particularly by Irish newspapers, firstly because the tragic event itself was so horrific in my mind that I didn’t want to know the details. Secondly, I was afraid that reading an Irish interpretation of evidence given during the trial would influence me such that I would already believe the two suspects were guilty before a jury of their own peer citizens made a decision. I did however note allegations that certain doubtful practices had been used by investigating police officers before the trial and by the prosecuting and defendant lawyers during the trial. It all made for a big mush-mash of justice being delivered under the widely-respected Mauritian, modern-day British-based justice system. And so it turned out to be. Why the hullaballoo about Police Officers from Sth Ireland going to Mauritius is going on I don’t know… Mr & Mrs McAreavey were atb time of honeymoon (like it or lump it) British citizens of Nth Ireland, possibly carrying Irish Passports to which they were entitled to. So why hasn’t the Govt of the UK offered to send intrepid Nth Ireland or Scotland Yard investigative officers to Mauritius to help find the truth? (more…)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 07:24 PM EDT
(…more) On a human level, it is an incredibly horrifically sad and unbelievably sordid affair (says me, reaching an internet-touching hand to the heart of John McAreavey, his family and his wife’s family), involving speculative thieves spotting hotel guests out of their room, engrossed in enjoying each other’s honeymooning company and chancing on that absence to pick up “pittance treasure”. Pittance treasure means lots to poorly-paid people. What many people may not realise is that the justice system in Mauritius is primarily based on the British common law system, as is Ireland’s and most of the USA’s. It was Britain which eventually relinquished control of Mauritius in the late 1960s and allowed it become an independent state, a republic (look up the definition of ‘republic’), which actually chose to remain part of the British Commonwealth. According to most observers of Mauritius since independence, the justice system there is well known for fairness and deliverance of proper justice and known as one of the least corrupt “Africa” associated countries. (Easy to do and control if you have a population less tha Dublin City, or is it??)(More…)
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jacersagain | Jul 17, 2012, 07:19 PM EDT
(In posting this following long, split-up post, let me state straight off that I am a native-born Irishman who has travelled a lot, worked in different foreign countries with diverse peoples of different countries and religions. I have never been to Mauritius and I live today Ireland.) In what is becoming a sickening saga, the story of the murder of our fellow human being, Michaela McAreavey, its aftermath of arrest, interrogation and trial of two suspects, followed by gleeful backslapping outside the Court and later celebrations with fireworks of the declaration of innocence and acquittal of the two suspects by the jury, followed yet again with the pathological publication of photographs of the dead body of Mrs McAreavey and the crime scene, it is no wonder that there is outrage in Ireland and elsewhere over the goings-on. (More…)
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