Ballypatrick Forest News Today

Close to 32mm of rain was recorded at the Stormont as roads closed due to flooding, including main stretch in Newtownabbey

A documentary investigating the unsolved murders of four Northern Irish women is coming to Netflix in the coming days.

Netflix is set to broadcast a crime series examining the unsolved murders of four young Northern Ireland women over a period of more than 40 years. 

Almost three quarters of a month's worth of rain fell on some parts of NI in just a day and a half.

BBC News Published image captionInga Maria Hauser went missing after she arrived in Larne on 6 April 1988 The family of a young German woman found murdered in a Northern Ireland forest are seeking an inquest to establish what happened. The body of Inga Maria Hauser, 18, from Munich was found in Ballypatrick Forest, Ballycastle, 33 years ago. No-one has even been charged over her murder. She was last seen on the Stranraer to Larne ferry two weeks earlier on 6 April. She did not take the train to...

The family of murdered German teenager Inga Maria Hauser, whose body was found in a Northern Irish forest in 1988, have made a fresh appeal for information 33 years after their loved one died. The body of the 18-year-old was found in Ballypatrick Forest near Ballycastle in north County Antrim after she was last seen on a ferry travelling from Scotland to Larne in April of that year. Last summer after the PSNI submitted a file to the Public Prosecution Service on two people, however the PPS deci...

Claire McKeegan admits to being “in and out of police stations a lot”, but this is no career criminal we are talking about. Instead, it’s her reputation as a tireless human rights lawyer that has made her familiar to the forces of law and order. Every day she deals with victims of serious crime; her clients include the family of murdered German backpacker Inga Maria Hauser and victims of institutional abuse in Northern Ireland. “Rarely does someone go to see a solicitor to discuss somet...