'TORMENT' OF BEACH FALL MAN; Death is not suspicious.Byline: TONY ALLEN Tony Allen may refer to:
THIS is the man whose body was found on a beach earlier this week. Clifford Finlay, 27, fell to his death from a cliff overlooking the sea near Castlerock, Co Derry. A passer-by found his remains on Tuesday near the railway line on Downhill Beach. A postmortem postmortem /post·mor·tem/ (post-mort´im) performed or occurring after death. post·mor·tem adj. Relating to or occurring during the period after death. n. See autopsy. was carried out on Wednesday and police confirmed last night that they were not treating his death as suspicious. One of his close friends said he was devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. at the news, but admitted Mr Finlay had been tormented by personal traumas. He added: "I've known him since school and he was a good mate. "But he was really quiet and he's had a lot on his mind recently. "It's such a shock to hear someone this young has been found like this." Mr Finlay, from Bangor, Co Down, had been missing since March 13 - less than three weeks before he was found dead. His family, who were too devastated to speak yesterday, posted pictures of him on an international missing persons' website. A report on the site said relatives feared he had gone to Amsterdam. But their desperate appeal to track him down was removed from the site yesterday. Mr Finlay is pictured here as a teenager just before he left Bangor Grammar School Bangor Grammar School is an all-boys voluntary grammar school situated in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. It comprises two parts, the preparatory department, Connor House (co-ed) and The Grammar, (boys only). It has around 1,000 pupils from ages 4 to 18. . It is understood Mr Finlay was on medication before his death and had trouble coping with personal problems. Local councillor Brian Wilson, whose son went to Bangor Grammar at the same time as Mr Finlay, said yesterday he was shocked to hear of the tragedy. He added: "Any sudden death of someone this young is always a real shock. "All my sympathies go to his family." CAPTION(S): PUPIL Clifford Finlay at Bangor Grammar |
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