21/02/2005

Funeral takes place of mini-motorbike victim

The funeral has taken place of the four-year-old child killed on a mini-scrambler motorbike in Belfast last week.

David Spence was sitting on the front of the bike with an adult when it was in collision with a car at the junction of Berlin Street and Riga Street in the Shankill Road area on Thursday.

David, who has a twin sister Chelsea, was buried following a funeral service at his home on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, police have named the man who died in a motorbike accident in Co Antrim at the weekend as 20-year-old Dathan Nathaniel Tweed, of Railway View, Macfin.

Mr Tweed died when his motorbike was in a collision with a car on MacFin Road on Sunday.

The driver and passenger in the car were not injured.

(MB)

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