Bev Turner

My pleasure.

Thanks, John.

It's a shame, isn't it, that the story is just so depressing, so dark, so horrifying, actually.

Yeah, it really is.

So the island of Ireland, of course, composes of Northern Ireland, which belongs to the British.

It's the British government.

It's part of the United Kingdom.

We've got the Republic of Ireland in the south.

And we understand that the perpetrator of this, a Sudanese man, came from Sudan in 2023 as an asylum seeker.

Now, the Republic of Ireland remains in the EU.

So he came from France.

He came to the Republic.

And then he just walked on through to Northern Ireland.

And we know that about 10.30 in the evening in Belfast, he attacked this guy, Stephen Ogilvie.

We know his name is.

We think he's in his 30s.

Very badly hurt.

He's lost an eye.

We understand terrible stabbings to his face and neck.

And there are reports that he's a vulnerable man, that he maybe has some learning needs himself and that he was living in the same apartment block as the guy that carried out the atrocity.