Michaela McAreavey Autopsy Updates
A plastic-type material bag had been placed over Michaela McAreavey’s head during her killing, a police autopsy statement has found.
The report reveals fresh details concerning the actual killing of the 27-year-old daughter of Tyrone GAA boss Mickey Harte on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.
Other important conclusions include:
Laboratory assessments were conducted on the plastic bag which had been used to cover Ms McAreavey’s head but no strains of the suspects’ DNA have been found.
She passed away from asphyxia due to compression of the neck.
It is actually not clear from the forensics records or police statements who removed the bag from Michaela’s head.
Michaela had many abrasions on the the front of her neck, as well as small sections of bruises to the actual front of her neck and larger bruises over her right and left collarbone.
DNA from the nail cuttings and swabbed samples from her neck do not match samples taken from resort workers who were initially named as suspects: Sandip Moneea, Avinash Treebhoowon, Dassen Narayanen or Raj Theekoy.
The reliability of DNA evidence is now being called into question as the thirty people shown up in Mapou District Court yesterday where a initial inquiry into Michaela’s homicide on January 10 is continuing.
The two men will be accused of murdering her at her room in the deluxe Legends hotel while she was on honeymoon with her spouse John McAreavey.
Meanwhile, a third man, Dassen Narayanen (twenty six), appeared in the trial and was arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder because he heard screams but did not run to help. However the charge was dropped and he is now a star witness for the prosecution.
During the pre-trial hearing in the murder case yesterday, Mauritian police were accused of brutality by lawyers who claim their clients were well tortured during their time in prison.
The court heard the Director of Public Prosecutions within Mauritius has ordered that the accusations of police brutality be investigated.
But the accused will have to make formal complaints to the police before the brutality charges to be given more importance.
Prosecution counsel for the state, Mehdi Choony, asked defence counsel for Avinash Treebhowon, Ravi Rutnah, to “seriously consider” the advice of the DPP to withdraw from the case as a defence barrister.
But Mr Rutnah replied that he was “amazed by the methods used by police to draw out confessions” from his client
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