Liam Neeson's nephew dies 5 years after injuring head in 20-foot fall on a night out with friends

Ronan Sexton, who passed away last weekend, around five years after he suffered major head injuries from falling from a phone booth in a prank gone wrong.
UPDATED JAN 17, 2019

Actor Liam Neeson is facing another death in the family, ten years after his wife Natasha Richardson passed away in 2009 following a tragic ski accident.

This time the actor is bearing the loss of of his 35-year-old nephew, Ronan Sexton, who passed away last weekend, around five years after he suffered major head injuries from falling from a phonebooth in a prank gone wrong.

Sexton was the youngest of six children of Liam's sister Bernadette Sexton, and at the time of his death was surrounded by his family in Cushendall in Northen Ireland.

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