Mauritian police are facing fresh questions about how graphic photographs of Michaela McAreavey's body were leaked to a local newspaper.
The murdered honeymooner's family reacted with horror yesterday when it emerged that a Sunday paper had published a disturbing picture of her lifeless body across its front page.
Inside there were more pictures, including close-ups of marks on Michaela's neck.
A spokesman for the McAreavey and Harte families said: "They are in shock as to how far this has gone." Defence lawyers for the two hotel workers cleared of her murder last week insisted the images had not been leaked by their camp.
But the Mauritian police and the newspaper that published the photos -- the Mauritian 'Sunday Times' -- remained silent on the controversy.
The Republic's prime minister Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Stormont's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness condemned the publication.
Mr McGuinness said the photographs had come from within the Mauritian system.
"Just when it seems the system in Mauritius cannot heap anymore pain and anguish on to the McAreavey and Harte families, a local newspaper publishes pictures of Michaela's body," he said.
"The decision of the newspaper in Mauritius to publish crime scene photographs, including pictures of Michaela's body, is an outrageous abuse that cannot be justified in anyway," he said.
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