Tragic news for Derry parents

A Derry city family visiting one of their sons in a Dublin hospital after an accident received the tragic news of the death of…

A Derry city family visiting one of their sons in a Dublin hospital after an accident received the tragic news of the death of a second son. Robert and Anne Bradley from Whitehouse Park, Derry, were in Dublin's Mater Hospital on Saturday visiting Thomas (28) who had been hit by a car in the city and suffered a broken leg. Then word arrived of the death of their 20-year-old son Robert and fellow student at Trent University, Nottingham, 21year-old Alexander Geever from Manchester, after both had been hit by a car.

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