Defence slams McAreavey case police

Police investigating the murder of Michaela McAreavey have diced with justice and risked the reputation of Mauritius by accusing a man who could not have physically committed the crime, his trial was warned.

A lawyer for Sandip Moneea claimed evidence would show that he was on a four-minute phone call to his sister at the time the prosecution contends the Co Tyrone honeymooner was strangled in her hotel room on the island.