A teenager (16) killed in a hit-and-run accident was a son of the police sergeant who took charge amid the carnage of the Omagh bombing.
Richard Marshall, whose body was found on the roadside at Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone, early yesterday was the oldest child of Sgt Philip Marshall, local sources said.
The teenager left a hotel in the town shortly before midnight, and his body was found at 12.30 a.m.
Sgt Marshall was on the ground at Omagh when a Real IRA car bomb ripped through crowds of shoppers on August 15th, 1998, and he immediately took control of the emergency response to the disaster.
He was awarded the MBE in the 1999 New Year's honours for his professionalism and compassion that day as well as the central role he played in removing those injured and killed. Sgt Marshall stayed at the scene for five hours, leaving only when all the dead were removed.
PA