Allison Morris

So many of those have been solved.

All of them.

Which you should say would indicate that they're either the best or the worst police force in the entire world.

And there was nothing that I seen to indicate they were the best, let me tell you.

It was a ramshackle investigation from the start.

And then there was so much of an outpouring of sympathy on the island.

for Michaela and her family.

I remember going to a lovely mass on the other side of the island that had been arranged by local nuns and the church was packed full of people.

But because of everything that went on, that sympathy eroded very quickly.

And they, you know, this was, you know, oh, this is a witch hunt against local people because they started claiming that she was this rich foreigner from this powerful family and all.

And, you know, Mickey, Mickey Hart was the town manager at the time.

But,

They were getting on as if that meant it was like Alec Ferguson or something.

I mean, the GAA is an amateur sport, you know, this was, but there was so much misinformation.

And when I went back, you know, all those years later to make the documentary that I made with the BBC, we went to the old newspaper archive and it was amazing because the week after the murder, it was this...

picture of this beautiful and she was very beautiful this beautiful woman you know getting married all these lovely pictures and you know the poor Irish woman that was murdered this was terrible and then as you went on her picture kept getting smaller and smaller and smaller and the picture of the suspects kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and it was miscarriage of justice you know police corruption and it changed and you could see the sympathy changing and it was just there on the front pages of the papers

And it wasn't even a wall between, I think it was like a screen sort of almost between the room and the bath.

It was, you know, very designed for honeymoon couples.

Port Louis itself was... There was a fettering in the hotel they were stealing, but they were stealing such small amounts of money that for a long time it wasn't noticed.

And I don't know about you, but when I'm on holiday, if I left, you know, a handful of euros on a dressing table and someone came in and took 10 of them, I wouldn't notice.