‘We need closure... we need them back’

A father who lost his son in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash said that the families needed to see their loved ones and bury them for "closure".

Barry Sweeney, speaking in the Netherlands as he watched Ukrainian military planes flying in to Eindhoven with the bodies of the victims, told of his emotion on making the same journey to Amsterdam as his son Liam Sweeney had just six days earlier.

“We need closure. We need to see our children. All the families, the mams, the dads, brothers, sisters, we need them back here,” he said.