Funeral for man who died on trawler

TEARS welled in the eyes of mourners yesterday as a young fisherman’s funeral cortege passed the trawler on which he died.

Thousands of people turned out to pay their last respects to Wayne Murphy, 25, who was found dead in a bunk in his father’s trawler, the Menhaden, in the early hours of last Tuesday morning.

His death, believed to be from natural causes, occurred as the trawler was fishing 25-miles west of Ullapool, Scotland.