Boy was on phone to father as train struck

A TEENAGER who was trapped in front of an oncoming train pleaded desperately for help during a phone call with his father moments before he died.

An ongoing inquest has heard that Ryan Quinn, 14, from Coleraine in Co Derry, lost his life after his hand became lodged in a cattle grid in Portrush, Co Antrim, in January 2009.

Moments before his death — in which he suffered spinal injuries and severed limbs — the teenager made a frantic call to his father, Ivan, claiming he had been attacked by other teenagers at the nearby McLaughlin’s pub and chased onto the train line.