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Glasgow helicopter crash: Funerals for Mark O'Prey and Gary Arthur | Glasgow helicopter crash: Funerals for Mark O'Prey and Gary Arthur |
(about 7 hours later) | |
The first funerals have taken place for Clutha bar customers who died in the Glasgow helicopter crash. | |
Hundreds of mourners attended a service for 44-year-old Mark O'Prey at St Bride's RC Church in East Kilbride. | |
Family and friends of 48-year-old Gary Arthur are attending a service at Woodside Crematorium in Paisley. | |
Six customers inside the packed Clutha bar and the three people on board the Police Scotland aircraft were killed in the crash on 29 November. | |
The requiem mass for Mr O'Prey was led by Father Owen Ness. | |
He told the congregation that he had spoken to Mr O'Prey's father, Ian, about his fears and hopes for his son in the hours following the Clutha tragedy. | |
"Late on Saturday afternoon he told me those hopes were unfulfilled," Father Ness said. | |
He summed up the relationship between father and son by recounting a memory of a time when Mr O'Prey had called by unexpectedly to chat with his father. | |
"He now looks upon that as a gift in his life," Father Ness said. | |
During the Mass, readings were given by Ian O'Prey and Mark's sister Barbara. | |
A special prayer was said for Mr O'Prey's 15-year-old son Liam, whose mother Clare Gillies, his ex-partner, was also present. | |
Liam's teachers and school registration class were in church to support the teenager. | |
Father Ness spoke of the whole family's love for Mr O'Prey. He thanked mourners for their attendance, which he said gave the family great comfort. | |
The congregation sang hymns including I Watch The Sunrise and Lead Kindly Light, and mourners took communion. | |
Liam was among those who carried his father's coffin out of the church as mourners sang the hymn Walk With Me, Oh My Lord. | |
Mr O'Prey's sister Barbara said a final farewell, laying her hand on the coffin while it was in the hearse. | |
'Heartfelt thanks' | |
The funeral cortege then departed to South Lanarkshire Crematorium for a service of committal, led by a police outrider. | |
Scores of mourners lined the streets in respectful silence as the cortege drove off. | |
Mr O'Prey's family thanked everyone for their attendance. | |
A message on the order of service said: "Mark's mum, dad and all the family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to everyone here today. | |
"The kindness shown not just by family and friends but from the nation as a whole has been of tremendous support to Mark's family." | |
The service for Mr Arthur at Woodside Crematorium in Paisley got underway at 13:00. | |
On Saturday, the funeral for pilot Capt David Traill was held in Glasgow. | On Saturday, the funeral for pilot Capt David Traill was held in Glasgow. |
The other crew members who died in the incident were police constables Kirsty Nelis, 36, and Tony Collins, 43. | The other crew members who died in the incident were police constables Kirsty Nelis, 36, and Tony Collins, 43. |
The four other customers inside The Clutha who died were Robert Jenkins, 61, Colin Gibson, 33, John McGarrigle, 57, and Samuel McGhee, 56. | |
An investigation into the cause of the crash is under way. | |