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Belfast man drowns on holiday in Bulgaria | Belfast man drowns on holiday in Bulgaria |
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The family of a Belfast man who drowned on holiday in Bulgaria last week have gone to the country to bring his body home. | |
James Kelly, who was in his 20s and who was originally from the Shankill Road area of Belfast, died on Wednesday. | |
Mr Kelly had a young daughter. He had been on holiday with his partner in the Sunny Beach resort on the Black Sea when he died. | |
He was the nephew of murdered loyalist Bobby Moffett. | |
Mr Kelly's aunt, Irene Owens, said: "They were out on the peddle boat and James stepped out. The water was still up to normal, he was still standing. | |
'So happy' | |
"His girlfriend said that the next thing she saw was his head bobbing up and down. | |
"Next thing, when she looked, he was gone." | |
"James was telling Lily, his mum, that it was the best holiday he had ever been on. | |
"It was brilliant, he enjoyed it. He was so, so happy." | |
Democratic Unionist Party councillor Brian Kingston said it was a "terrible tragedy". | |
He said his "thoughts are with the family". | |
Mr Kelly's uncle, Bobby Moffett, was shot dead on Belfast's Shankill Road in May 2010. | |
The now defunct Independent Monitoring Commission, the body set up to scrutinise paramilitary activity, found that the Ulster Volunteer Force's leadership had sanctioned the 43-year-old's killing. |