Daughter ‘completely numb’ at killings

THE daughter of an Irishman shot dead in South Africa has said she is “completely numb” at the tragedy which left both her father and his wife dead.

Describing him as a man with a “huge smile” who could always make her laugh, Siobhán McGuirk said all she had been left with was memories of her dad, Kevin McGuirk.

The 53-year-old diving school boss, a father-of-five originally from Dublin, and his South African wife Kim, 34, died on Monday after being shot at their home near Johannesburg. Kim McGuirk’s 75-year-old father, Erwin Franz Poppinger, who was arrested in Alberton, admitted he had shot them with a licensed pistol. He contacted police on Tuesday morning following a row — understood to be about money — at the house on the previous night.