It is the picture that tells a thousand words. The relief and anguish is written all over his face as he clutches his tiny son to his chest.

An Irish father who lost three of his four children in a car crash in Denmark last summer has described the €1,340 fine handed down to their killer as “somewhat light” given the consequences of his actions.

The family of kidnapped British hostage Tim Selby are celebrating after the engineer and his two Danish colleagues were freed by Bangladeshi rebels.