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Banks’ victims, who had travelled to court to hear his fate, burst into tears and had to be comforted by relatives and staff from the Crown Office’s victim support unit.
I’m not sure they will be comforted by the fact he was a hero and saved two lives.
Source: https://the-riotact.com/off-duty-officer-drowns-saving-two-boys-at-narooma/625597
Rheingold, of the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center, said the meaning of that sentiment is not that the individual be comforted by the memory of the deceased.