‘We place them into God’s care’

TEARS welled in the dark eyes of Michelle Walls yesterday as she endured the nightmare of every wife and parent.

Supported by members of her wider family, she stared through the unseasonable November sunshine at the three coffins bearing her husband, Eddie, and their only daughters, Theresa, 3, and 18-month-old Natasha.

Just 22, Michelle has already lived a lifetime of grief. As the Very Rev Eamonn McCamley said at the funeral Mass yesterday: “We place our broken hearts on this altar.”