Family in tears as body of soldier is repatriated to UK

THE family of a city soldier killed in Afghanistan broke down in tears as his body was repatriated to the UK.

Highlander Scott McLaren's relatives comforted each other as the 20-year-old's coffin was driven through Wootton Bassett yesterday.

His parents, James and Ann, sister Kirsty and brothers James and Ross, joined other relatives in the Wiltshire town to pay tribute to their loved one.

As has become tradition, local people and Royal British Legion members joined his family and friends to line the high street in tribute.

The soldier, of the 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, was found dead with gunshot wounds after vanishing from a Nato checkpoint in central Helmand province on July 4.

The exact circumstances of his death remain unclear.