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A 24-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been killed in Liverpool was Matthew Bradley.
He was in the city for a stag do, when he became the victim of a hit and run.
It happened on The Strand near the Hilton Hotel around 11.40pm on Friday night.
He was pronounced dead in the early hours of Saturday morning.
In a statement, Matthew’s parents Donal and Margaret Bradley, on behalf of his three sisters Claire, Roisin and Megan, and his girlfriend Rhiannon, from Guildford, said:
“Matthew was hugely talented and award-winning in his chosen career of landscape gardening – following in his dad’s footsteps – and had an illustrious career ahead of him.
“He was a funny, kind-hearted and generous young man who will be sorely missed by all that knew him.”
Sinn Fein Councillor for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Anne-Marie Logue, told us he was a very popular member of the community.
Police are looking for a grey coloured BMW car in connection with the incident.
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