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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Brendan Hughes

Seven people facing possible charges over online video mocking Michaela McAreavey murder

Seven people have been referred to prosecutors in a police probe over an online video mocking the murder of Michaela
McAreavey.

It was filmed in an Orange Hall in greater Belfast and appeared to show several men singing a chant about her death while on her honeymoon.

The footage prompted widespread condemnation across the political sphere in Northern Ireland and beyond when it surfaced on social media last year.

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Mrs McAreavey, the daughter of former Tyrone GAA football manager Mickey Harte, was strangled in her room at the Legends Hotel in Mauritius, in January 2011.

No one has been convicted of her murder.

In a statement, Detective Chief Inspector Dunny McCubbin said: “We interviewed six men aged 54, 51, 35, 25, 22 and 21 years old who attended voluntarily for interview.

“One man aged 32 was arrested in relation to the investigation and subsequently released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.

“A file has been submitted to Public Prosecution Service in relation to the investigation.”

Last June, three men apologised for their involvement in the incident and resigned from the Orange Order.

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