Funerals for Britons killed in Tunisia massacre

The eight were among the 38 victims of the attack at a popular beach resort near Sousse.

He told her funeral: “She told me that she loved me, I told her that I loved her”.

Owen Richards comforts his mother Suzie Evans during the minute’s silence at Walsall’s stadium.

The family was on holiday in Tunisia, together with Joel’s 16-year old brother Owen when Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire at tourists at the beach at Sousse.

The couple, childhood sweethearts, had recently become engaged after more than a decade together.

Paying tribute to all three victims, the clergyman said: “Happily, Owen is still with us”.

“She was my best friend, my fiance, the love of my life”.

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“Mum and Dad were the happiest, most loving couple who enjoyed life’s simple pleasures”, the family said after the deaths were confirmed.

The UK government has said that a service of remembrance for the 26 June beach terror attack is to take place in the autumn and a memorial dedicated to them will be built.

They leave behind five children and 10 grandchildren.

The funeral for the three members of the Evans and Richards families is being held in West Bromwich.

Joel Richards, 19, his uncle, Adrian Evans, and the teenager’s grandfather, Charles Patrick Evans, were described at their funeral as the “true definition” of a close-knit family.

His family paid tribute to “a kind, compassionate man with a dry sense of humour who would be deeply missed”.

Addressing a service of thanksgiving in their hometown of Walsall, Monsignor Bruce Harbert said: “Even in their last moments they stayed together, seeking to protect each other”.

The daughters and son of mother-of-three Sue Davey walked behind her coffin, borne by a horse-drawn carriage, as it arrived for her funeral in Tamworth, Staffordshire. She was on holiday with her partner Scott Chalkley at the time who was also caught up in the shooting and died.

Adrian Evans, a 49-year-old gas service manager, 78-year-old Charles Evans, known to friends as Pat, and Joel were killed within 24 hours of arriving in Tunisia.

Thousands of Britons have since been flown home from Tunisia after the Foreign Office declared another attack in the country was “highly likely”. Ms Swannack was a great grandmother who had been going to Sousse for years.

“She had a heart of gold and was always first to offer help to others”.