Michaela McAreavey’s body is due to be flown home on Friday The body of Michaela McAreavey is expected to be flown home to Northern Ireland from Mauritius on Friday.
Mrs McAreavey, 27, daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte, was found murdered in her honeymoon hotel room on Monday.
It is understood her family hope to hold her funeral next Monday – in the same County Tyrone church where she married on 30 December.
Three men have been charged in connection with the murder.
A lawyer for Raj Theekoy, who is accused of conspiracy to murder, said his client had spoken to police and implicated the other two.
The two men accused of murder are 29-year-old Avinash Treebhoowoon and 41-year-old Sandip Moneea.
All three men have been remanded in police custody for a week and will return to court next Wednesday, when they are expected either to be formally charged or released.
‘She is my life’
On Wednesday evening, a police chief in Mauritius told the Press Association that skin tissue found under the fingernails of Mrs McAreavey could prove crucial to the police case against the three men charged over her killing.
Mrs McAreavey’s husband, John, has described her as “his rock”.
Sandip Moneea, 41, Raj Theekoy, 33, and Avinash Treebhoowoon, 29, have been charged over the killing He said their hopes, dreams and future were gone and he had been left heartbroken and totally devastated.
“I love my wife, very, very much and my world revolved around her.
“I can’t describe in words how lost I feel as Michaela is not just the light of my life – she is my life,” Mr McAreavey said.
The funeral mass is expected to take place at St Malachy’s in Ballymacilroy near the Harte family home in County Tyrone.
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