Enniskillen body find not suspicious, say police
A YOUNG girl is giving up her birthday presents to save a turkey from ending up on the Christmas dinner table.
Annabelle Hope, who turns nine today, is saying no to gifts so that the money can be used to adopt a turkey for her over the festive season.
And Annabelle, from Jonesborough in Co Armagh, has persuaded her family not to have turkey on their Yuletide menu on Monday.
“I couldn’t bear the thought of eating a turkey, and saving one will be my perfect birthday gift,” said Annabelle.
The Cloughogue Primary School pupil asked her parents Carina and Paul to finance the rescue of a turkey by an animal charity in Moira with the money they would have given her for her birthday.
Carina said: “She says if she has any more cash from her birthday or from Christmas she wants to sponsor another turkey.”
The Belfast Telegraph reported last week how Barbara Mladek’s charity was planning to rescue 61 turkeys after buying them from farmers.
Carina added: “Annabelle heard me talking about Barbara’s plans, and she immediately asked me to use her birthday money to adopt a bird for her.
“She loves animals and she didn’t eat the turkey that was in the Christmas lunch at school the other day.”
Annabelle, who is an award-winning Irish dancer as well as an enthusiastic gymnast, has already named her rescued turkey Hope.
And she travelled to Barbara’s Nut House Battery Hen Rescue and Re-Homing Centre In Moira yesterday to see her new feathered friend.
Paul and Carina had been planning to buy a turkey for a traditional Christmas Day dinner.
But Annabelle gave the idea the chop.
She said: “I couldn’t see the point of saving a turkey if we were going to eat another one.”
Mum Carina added: “We are going to have a special Christmas buffet instead with no turkey in it.”
Carina has three other children as well as Annabelle, and revealed that the family had recently suffered a pet bereavement.
One of their two cats, Bobby, died last week at the age of 17. THE death of a man who was found at a house in Co Fermanagh two days ago is not being treated as suspicious, the PSNI has said.
Police were called to the property in the Riverside area of Enniskillen on Thursday evening.
The body, believed to be that of a 50-year-old man, was taken away by an ambulance crew for further examination.
A post-mortem carried out yesterday confirmed that he did not die in suspicious circumstances.
No further details of the deceased were released.
Ulster Unionist Party Fermanagh MLA Rosemary Barton expressed her sympathy to the man’s family.
She said: “This news is extremely sad at this time of the year.
“People are getting ready to go on their holidays over the Christmas break, it’s just awful.”
Also expressing her condolences via social media she tweeted: “Sad to hear of a body discovered in Enniskillen, can be even more difficult for family and friends given that it is Christmas time.”