Student Seifeddine Rezgui, 23
Eight of the 30 Britons who were killed in last Friday’s massacre on a Tunisian beach have been returned to the UK.
The coffins of Adrian Evans, Patrick Evans, Joel Richards, Carly Lovett, Stephen Mellor, John Stollery, and Denis and Elaine Thwaites were adorned with white flowers and were carried off the plane by members of the armed forces.
Relatives wept and comforted each other as the military transport aircraft landed at Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, having left Tunis earlier on Wednesday.
Student Seifeddine Rezgui, 23, shot them and 30 other people dead at the beach resort of Sousse last Friday.
As the plane landed, a statement issued on behalf of Suzanne Richards for the Evans and Richards families was released which said: “We are a very small and normal family, but nothing will ever be normal again.
“My son Joel, dad Pat and brother Adrian were our rocks and we are all heartbroken and devastated and will never get over losing them.”
Joel’s 16-year-old brother Owen survived the attack.
David Cameron told the Commons he is looking at creating a ministerial committee to co-ordinate work across Government “to provide all the support that the victims of this appalling attack deserve and also to make sure that, as a nation, we mark and commemorate this event appropriately”.
Those wounded have already been brought back to the UK, with four severely injured holidaymakers flown home. They are being treated at hospitals in Birmingham, Oxford, Plymouth and London.
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