Man arrested over Liverpool hit-and-run death
Co. Antrim man Matthew Bradley died after he was struck by a car on Friday night.
Last updated 7th Nov 2017
A man has been arrested over a suspected hit-and-run collision in Liverpool which killed a Co Antrim gardener.
Matthew Bradley, 24, from Glenavy, was struck by a silver BMW in the city centre on Friday night during a night out with friends.
The award-winning landscape gardener later died in hospital.
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: Police have arrested a man following a fatal traffic collision on The Strand in Liverpool city centre on November 3.
A 22-year-old man from Vauxhall, Liverpool, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
He has been taken to a police station in Merseyside to be interviewed.''
Earlier, Mr Bradley's family described him as a kindhearted man who had an illustrious career ahead of him.
In a statement, his parents Donal and Margaret Bradley, speaking on behalf of his three sisters Claire, Roisin and Megan, and his girlfriend Rhiannon, who is 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.''