Two former hotel workers have been acquitted of murdering the newly-wed Michaela McAreavey on her honeymoon in Mauritius in January 2011. The daughter of Tyrone gaelic football manager Mickey Harte was found strangled in her room.
The defence lawyers had insisted the confession statement signed by Treebhoowoon three days after the crime was a fabrication that had been extracted by police brutality.
The hotel room cleaner claimed he had been beaten repeatedly, whipped on the soles of his feet, grabbed in the groin and been stripped naked before his head was plunged into water so many times he vomited blood.
Rama Valayden compared the case to pastmiscarriages of justice involving Irish people.
"This is what happens when we rush tofind justice, like it was in the Birmingham Six, like it was in the Guilford Four," he said.
"Wherever in the world, when we rush totry to find justice we always fail."
He claimed the Mauritian police's major crime investigation team (MCIT) had ignored vital evidence that would have identified the real killer in their haste to find someone to blame quickly.
The lawyer demanded the MCIT be disbanded and a new unit take on a fresh investigation.
Two former hotel workers have been acquitted of murdering honeymooner Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius.
John McAreavey paid an emotion tribute to his murdered wife Michaela in court in Mauritius today. He also described how police treated him.