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TRUST fund set up in memory of a Newry man killed in a New York hit-and-run is to help bring a road victim from Co Cavan home from New Zealand.
The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust yesterday confirmed that it was helping the family of Martin Cadden.
The 22-year-old agricultural worker, the only son of Michael and Ann Cadden from Loughduff in Mullahoran, was killed late on Friday when his car spun out of control and crashed into a tree in the Southbridge area of the South Island.
A relative has travelled to New Zealand to make arrangements for the young man's body to be brought home for burial with the support of the repatriation trust.
Colin Bell, who set up the trust after the death of his son Kevin in 2013, revealed that they had also assisted the families of three other Irish men who died abroad within the space of a week in December.
The Finnegans of Glaslough, Co Monaghan were supported after English teacher James Finnegan was struck by a car as he got out of a taxi in the city of Gwang-Ju in South Korea on December 7.
The trust also came to the aid of the family of 24-year-old backpacker Brendan Devenney, from Mullingar, Co Westmeath, who died after
being found unconscious in a budget hotel room in Mumbai on December 9.
The third case involved a Co Limerick man who died in Wellington, New Zealand on December 11.
Champion Irish dancer Kevin Bell (26) from Newry had been out socialising with friends when he was the victim of a hit and run in The Bronx in June 2013.
* MEMORY: Kevin Bell n CRASH: Martin Cadden