Hiker’s body recovered in New Zealand

THE mother of a Belfast doctor killed on a mountain in New Zealand yesterday spoke of her relief that a search-and-rescue team had recovered his body.

Dr Donal Deery, 29, died as he tried to save his girlfriend Helen McClements, who slipped as they climbed the South Island’s Southern Alps last week.

His family heard on Tuesday night that a police team from the nearby town of Wanaka had brought his body down from the mountain.