A fourth man arrested yesterday by Mauritian police in connection with the murder of Michaela Harte on the Indian Ocean island last week is expected in court this morning.
According to a police spokesman, a security guard working at the hotel in which Ms Harte and her husband John McAreavey were honeymooning was taken into custody in the capital Port Louis yesterday.
Mickey Harte stood shoulder to shoulder with his son-in-law John McAreavey as they lay down the Tyrone Rose Michaela Harte McAreavey to sleep in her final resting place.
Grown men often fireless on the football field crumbled all around the small graveyard, school children cried uncontrollably as their teacher and friend was lowered into the earth. Catholic and Protestant stood side by side to say goodbye to a wonderful young woman.
An inspiration in life an Angel in death best sums up the life of Michaela Harte.
Michaela was lowered into the ground with gentleness and love, an Angel returned to the earth in the wedding dress she so proudly wore only a few days ago.
Parents grasped tightly on their children’s hands as the full magnitude of what happened to Michalea Harte finally came upon them as the clay fell down onto her coffin.
Deep painful cries could not be held back from many gathered as they looked upon Mickey and John two men now broken with pain yet united in grief.
Ladies with Rosary beads moved quickly though their prayers a way perhaps to distract them from the horrible truth. Little boys and girls who probably never knew Michaela Harte had tear marked faces as they tried to hide their sadness behind the headstones that are so cold and grey.
There was a warmth in the graveyard even though the day was cold, a warmth of a people wanting to carry the Harte and McAreavey family through this terrible time.
If Michaela could speak from the grave she would not want her family, friends and husband to suffer, she would want them to think about the next All Ireland and enjoy their memories of the Tyrone Rose whom we will never forget.
Michaela Harte Mc Areavey the Tyrone Rose RIP
