Sister made two slurry tank rescue attempts

The extraordinary bravery of a young woman who tried to rescue her father and two brothers – one of them a top Ulster rugby player – when they were overcome by killer fumes emerged today.

Emma Spence twice climbed into a manhole and then down into a slurry tank on the family farm near Hillsborough, Co Down, where her father Noel, 68, and brothers, Graham, 30, and Nevin, 22, all died trying to save each other.