‘I hope Lyra’s killer is haunted every night by what he did’ –sister of journalist speaks five years on from fatal shooting

Young journalist’s grieving family live daily with their painful wait for justice

Sister of Lyra McKee speaks ahead of the fifth anniversary of her death

Ali Bracken

A nine-year-old girl was standing close to journalist Lyra McKee when she was shot dead while observing a riot in Derry five years ago.

“That young child could just have easily been killed, thank God she wasn’t. But we lost our Lyra, my baby sister,” Nichola Corner-McKee told the Sunday Independent the week before the anniversary of her beloved sister’s death.