Tribute to family-run charity… Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust an ‘example to us all’: Logue

The work of a family-run charity which has helped repatriate a number of Derry people after they died abroad has been praised by a local councillor.

Sinn Fein’s Patricia Logue said the Kevin Bell Reparation Trust provided an “invaluable service” to families during their “deepest time of need” when they received the “devastating news” that a loved one had been killed or died tragically abroad.

The Trust was set up three years ago by the Bell family, from Newry in Co Down, after Colin Bell's 26-year-old son, Kevin, was killed in a suspected hit-and-run in New York in June 2013.

Since its inception the charity has helped bring home the bodies of over 230 Irish citizens.

Cllr Logue said it continued to be “a shining example to us all.”

“I salute the work of Kevin Bell’s family, their friends and the Trust’s volunteers for the great work and the practical and emotional support they offer.