Schoolchildren grieve

Press, 19 November 1981, Page 8

Schoolchildren grieve

Heartbroken : 'schoolchildren yesterday followed the coffin of the youth worker shot dead by the same I.R.A. gunmen who murdered the Ulster Unionist member of Parliament, the Rev. Robert Bradford. Many wept at the funeral in Belfast of Ken Campbell, aged 29, who was a caretaker at the community centre where he and Mr Bradford were gunned down.

Shops in South, Belfast closed down, afid children from several schools in- the area left their desks to join several hundred mourners. The Rev. lan Paisley, Mr Peter Robinson, and Mr Johnny McQuade—three Democratic- Ulster Unionist members of Parliament suspended from the House of Commons bn Monday after an outburst over the killings—were among them.

Mr Campbell, who was unmarried, had been organising a disco when he was shot, and many of the children who screamed' in terror and hid under tables when the gunmen burst in, attended the funeral yesterday. Among them was the 15-year-old. boy who threw a chair at one of the terrorists. Another boy, Ken McNeill, aged 15, said yesterday: “All the children idolised Ken.”