Man who lost his wife in Omagh blast to remarry

A MAN whose wife was killed in the Omagh bomb atrocity is to marry the Romanian mother of a child he and his wife had tried to adopt.

Kevin Skelton, 50, will wed Maria Nedelcu at a register office in the Co Tyrone town next week after a lengthy battle with British Home Office officials. Ms Nedelcu, 39, has already moved to the North with two of her three daughters from her former home in Fagaras, central Romania.

The couple met when Mr Skelton, whose wife Mena, 49, died in the August 1998 Real IRA massacre, travelled to eastern Europe. He had gone to an orphanage where Ms Nedelcu’s middle daughter, Andrea, was staying.