Michaela McAreavey | |
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Born | Michaela Harte December 31, 1983 Glencull, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
Died | 10 January 2011 Grand Gaube, Rivière du Rempart District, Mauritius | (aged 27)
Cause of death | Strangulation |
Body discovered | 10 January 2011, Legends (afterwards renamed LUX Grand Gaube) Hotel in Grand Gaube, Mauritius |
Resting place | St Malachy's Cemetery, Ballymacilroy |
Alma mater | St Mary's University College, Belfast Queen's University Belfast |
Occupation | Teacher |
Employer | St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon |
Known for | Association with the Tyrone Gaelic football team, Participation in The Rose of Tralee, |
Spouse | John McAreavey |
Parent(s) | Mickey and Marian Harte |
Michaela McAreavey, née Harte (Irish: Micheáilín Mhic Giolla Riabhaigh née Ní hÁirt, 31 December 1983 – 10 January 2011) was found strangled in the bath of a hotel room in Mauritius, where she had travelled for her honeymoon.[1] The daughter of Tyrone's multiple All-Ireland Senior Football Championship-winning Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte, her death and subsequent events prompted continuing widespread international media coverage.
It was the first murder of a tourist in Mauritius,[2][3] and the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam expressed his sympathy to the Harte and McAreavey families.[4] The two hotel workers who were accused of her murder were tried and declared not-guilty by the Supreme Court of Mauritius: they were acquitted on 12 July 2012.[5][6]