Allison Morris

When you spoke to the defence lawyers, they then started telling, we went into a story, there's also, we also spoke to a guy who worked in a wee ramshackle office because he gave his time off for free, who was someone who was very involved in sort of human rights.

The amount of people who die in custody in Mauritius is shocking.

The police, while we were there, there was a video running on the local news of them taking a guy out and putting him inside a tower.

So he was trapped, his arms inside like a large tractor tower and beating the life out of him in a sugarcane field.

And this was running on a loop on the local media while we were there.

So this was happening in real time.

I think at one stage they said in the last, since 2005, up to 500 people had died in custody or shortly after being released from custody.

Mauritius is a country of 1.5 million.

Northern Ireland is a country of 1.9 million.

Can you imagine if 500 people had died in custody in that period of time?

The defence lawyers pretend people's mothers don't phone us up and say, he has been arrested.

Can you get to the station before they charge him?

Something he didn't do.

They say, can you get to the station before they kill him?

And that is the view of the police there.

So the police are viewed very dimly.

They didn't have very advanced forensics, again, which didn't help because there's obviously forensics in that hotel room that could have easily led to a conviction for Michaela's killer, but it was all done in such a ramshackle way.

They refused help of other, I'd say, police agencies, which could have maybe helped and brought some expertise to it.

The whole thing was shambolic.

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