Allison Morris

Yeah, they believed that these people had been fitted up and it just became really, really aggressive.

And the local press, if you go back and look, I mean, that was the narrative that they were running, that this was a stitch up.

And you find out really at the time.

I suppose my whole brief was to get the story of Michaela and what had happened and the murder and the facts.

And I spoke at the time to the president at the time, the prime minister, president of Mauritius.

I spoke to him.

I spoke to senior police officers.

I spoke to local people.

I spoke to the hotel owner, all of that.

But when I went back then 10 years later with the BBC, I suppose you have a different, because you're then saying, well, like, let's look at this with a wider lens and see what happened.

And so we again go back and retrace and speak to all the same people again.

But we also spoke then to the defense lawyers who became almost famous and part of the story.

And they, you know, they are a colorful bunch, I have to say.

And most of them were educated in England.

They all go to England to study law.

Mauritian law, because obviously it was a colonized country, their law is very similar to UK.

So the common law would be a very, very similar pattern, which for me made it easy to understand rather than, you know, Spanish law, which is difficult to understand.

But they were called, the local media called them the Avengers.

They were like superheroes and they went around and they lived in very nice houses, I have to say, compared to how the way most normal people live.

No, and this is what I mean.