Nicola Tallent

Yeah.

He followed after her and made the discovery of her floating in a bath.

Now, the rooms had these huge big kind of like roundy baths with the... It was a honeymoon hotel, so there was a big circular bath almost in the middle of the room.

Yeah, almost in the middle.

Yeah, there wasn't quite a bathroom.

For sure.

And balconies overlooking the sea.

Beautiful, you know, beautiful resort and all the rest of it.

Initially, as the news started filtering back, the police over there had brought John McAreevy into custody and questioned him.

Roughly, it would later emerge.

And then as the kind of the time went on and the Irish ambassador, who I think was the nearest was based in South Africa at the time, came to the island and the pressure kind of went on from here as well.

And there was a group of men rounded up who worked in the hotel.

And there was a narrative that there was a theft ring and that they were stealing coins and stuff from rooms of very wealthy people.

It was a very poor place.

Yes.

In order to make it look like a drowning or an accident?

Oh, right, okay.

Are they still there?

And it wasn't that there was just people were milling about doing the normal thing.

And there were petals around our feet everywhere we went, not realising we were journalists there to cover a horrific murder.