yes. and my prayer was to give justice for ahmaud. he filed for us in the courts, he gave us a fairjudge, judge walmsley, he heard the testimonies from each witness. he gave us a very good verdict and he gave us a very good sentence. a letter, posted to a man in northern ireland, with no surname or address on the envelope just his first name and a 57 word biography has amazingly managed to find its way to the right place. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy, has more. feargal, lives across the road from the spa. his ma and da used to own it. no house number, no street name, a few things much more personal than that. the first thing i noticed was the amount of detail on the envelope and basically, my biography.
reaction to the sentencing outside the court. first, i want to say thank you to god, who made this all possible. yes my prayer was to give justice for ahmaud. he filed for us in the courts, he gave us a fairjudge, judge walmsley, he heard the testimonies from each witness. he gave us a very good verdict and he gave us a very good sentence. let s get some of the day s other news. the us supreme court has begun hearing arguments about the legality of president biden s vaccine or testing rules for large businesses. opponents say he does not have the authority to impose the rule without going through congress. backers say it will save lives. judgement is not expected for several days. nato s secretary general, jens stoltenberg, says russia is continuing its military build up near ukraine, posing a real risk of a new armed
been to their benefit to say something. on the idea of remorse, the judge made an important statement about how remorse is more than just what you say. it had to be demonstrated. i think even if they had spoken at the sentencing regarding their remorse for what took place, which perhaps they could have done so, the judge really pointed to moments after the killing of ahmaud arbery. the use of an expletive by the father. the turning of the back. the thinking about oneself and his own son for the younger of the mcmichaels. then of course remember, these men walked freely for weeks after this murder, and they were even told by the prosecutor at the time that they were protected by the citizen s arrest law, and they did not demonstrate remorse over that period of time. in actually their own words expressed at the scene of the crime what they thought. i do think there s an important moment for remorse to be expressed at sentencing. but i think in this case, the judge given the holistic
life, but does have the possibility of parole. here s georgia superior court judge timothy walmsley outlining some of the evidence from the trial. there s a frame where i believe ahmaud arbery, it looks to be if he s 20 yards out that may be close 30 yards out it s the frame of travis mcmichael lifting the shotgun to fire at ahmaud arbery. and you watch that with context and when i say context , after hearing the evidence in this case and thinking about a young man that had been running at that point for almost five minutes and it is a chilling, truly disturbing scene. ahmaud s mother gave her reaction to the sentencing outside the court. first, i want to say thank you to god, who made this all possible. yes. my prayer was to get justice for ahmaud. he fought for us in the courts, he gave us a fairjudge,
judge walmsley, he heard the testimonies from each from each witness, he gave us a very good verdict, and he gave us a very good sentence. our north america correspondent, david willis, told us about reaction to the trial in the us. simon, it s amazing, isn t it, that this death actually went largely unreported for two months after it occurred. it wasn t until that very harrowing video went viral that local prosecutors actually started to take some action, and ten weeks after the death of ahmaud arbery before these three men were arrested. well, today, thejudge described it as a very harrowing and chilling incident and he held a minute s silence in recognition of the terror that he said ahmaud arbery must ve endured as he was being chased for five minutes by these three men in pick up trucks. he sentenced gregory and travis mcmichael, father and son respectively, to life without the possibility