His coffin was taken back to his father’s home in the Cregagh area of east Belfast. A policeman saluted as the hearse pulled up outside the terraced house in Burren Way at exactly 1.15pm.
Moments later his coffin, draped in a Manchester United flag, was wheeled into the house where the blinds in all the windows were closed.
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