Stabbing victim’s parents ‘send him on his last journey’

THE heartbroken father of a stabbing victim told mourners at his son’s funeral yesterday that God had chosen the timing of his death.

Brian McKee, 24, died in hospital a week ago, a few hours after being stabbed in a row near his home in the Cork suburb of Mahon in the early hours of last Saturday morning.

Two men have since been charged with assault causing harm to the father-of-two, but there was no bitterness about the nature of his death during the emotional funeral Mass yesterday morning.