IDENTIFIED BY THEIR PRINTS
IDENTIFIED BY THEIR PRINTS
By STEPHEN WHITE and ALLISON McLAUGHLIN
AT LEAST two victims of the blast could be identified only by fingerprints, it emerged yesterday.
Police had to take prints from the crane used at work by father-of-three Brian McCrory, 54, to identify his body.
The family of Olive Hawkes, 60, are awaiting the results of similar tests at their farmhouse at Mountfield, six miles from Omagh. She went shopping and never returned. Yesterday her husband Percy was being comforted by their children Mandy 27, and Mark, 29.
But her brother Tommy Swann said they were still unable to grieve properly.
He said: "We can't mourn as officially she has not been identified. The official term is that she is unaccounted for."
Brian's five brothers and four sisters, who all live in Omagh, found he was missing only when they gathered on Saturday evening to make sure everyone was safe.
He is thought to have been standing next to the car when the bomb inside exploded. His sister Trudy Sharkey, 39, said: "We kept hoping he was helping to take people to hospital because he was that kind of man."
But they found his Cavalier parked in a street next to where the bomb went off.
Last night his wife Bernadette, sons Colin,23, and Brian Patrick,20,and daughter, Louise, 19, were being comforted by his brothers and sisters.
By STEPHEN WHITE and ALLISON McLAUGHLIN
AT LEAST two victims of the blast could be identified only by fingerprints, it emerged yesterday.
Police had to take prints from the crane used at work by father-of-three Brian McCrory, 54, to identify his body.
The family of Olive Hawkes, 60, are awaiting the results of similar tests at their farmhouse at Mountfield, six miles from Omagh. She went shopping and never returned. Yesterday her husband Percy was being comforted by their children Mandy 27, and Mark, 29.
But her brother Tommy Swann said they were still unable to grieve properly.
He said: "We can't mourn as officially she has not been identified. The official term is that she is unaccounted for."
Brian's five brothers and four sisters, who all live in Omagh, found he was missing only when they gathered on Saturday evening to make sure everyone was safe.
He is thought to have been standing next to the car when the bomb inside exploded. His sister Trudy Sharkey, 39, said: "We kept hoping he was helping to take people to hospital because he was that kind of man."
But they found his Cavalier parked in a street next to where the bomb went off.
Last night his wife Bernadette, sons Colin,23, and Brian Patrick,20,and daughter, Louise, 19, were being comforted by his brothers and sisters.
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Publisher: THE MIRROR
Ref: TM/033
Published Date: 18-Aug-98
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