A man convicted of stirring up hatred by taking part in singing a song which mocked the murder of Michaela McAreavey has avoided being sent to jail.
Dillion Kelly was sentenced to 240 hours community service for involvement in the chanting inside an Orange Order hall about the schoolteacher's death.
District Judge George Conner told the court:"I’m well and truly satisfied the words were abusive and insulting, but as a result hatred was likely to be stirred up." Prosecutors argued that the lyrics, including references to Ms McAreavy being"hammered and beaten about by strangers" were about mocking the murder of a young Catholic woman in a venue surrounded by union flags.The murder victim’s widower John McAreavey provided a statement on the distress caused to him and the wider family circle by the singing.Kelly declined to give evidence at the hearing, but during police interviews he denied taking part in the singing.
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