Name of Mournes helicopter crash pilot is released

The name of the pilot who was killed in last weekend's helicopter crash in the Mourne mountains has been released.

He was Anthony Joseph Smith, a former RAF and Army pilot who served in Northern Ireland.

It is thought he was working for a private aviation company when he died last Saturday alongside Charles Stisted and Ian Wooldridge.

The men were travelling to England from County Tyrone, where they were part of a private shooting party at an estate.

The helicopter is believed to have taken off from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and crashed at about 1600 BST in an area known locally as Leitrim Lodge, between Hilltown and Rostrevor.

Mr Stisted, 47, was chief executive of the Guards Polo Club at Windsor and a personal friend of the Prince of Wales.

Mr Wooldridge, from Windlesham, Surrey, was also a member of the Guards Polo Club.

Together with his brother Graham, he ran a £40m-a-year demolition and construction company.

Mr Wooldridge was a prominent figure in Dublin-based Harcourt Developments, the property company involved in the development of the Titanic Quarter in Belfast.