Dr Alex George pays heartfelt tribute to his late younger brother Llŷr with tattoo in his handwriting: ‘It means so much’

Dr has paid tribute to his younger brother Llŷr with a tattoo of his name in his late sibling’s own handwriting.

In July 2020, Llŷr after taking his own life, with Alex saying in a statement at the time that he had ‘lost his little brother to mental health’.

In February this year, the former star marked , writing in an Instagram caption: ‘Above all Llŷr had a good heart, he had an ability to look into your eyes and could feel exactly what you were feeling.’

In a new post shared on the social media platform, Alex, 31, revealed a tattoo design of his brother’s name on his right wrist underneath a symbol representing the sea.

‘Llŷr ? “God Of The Sea”. The most beautiful name, it means so much to have it done in his handwriting. We will never forget you my boy x,’ he wrote, explaining the meaning of the name.

Alex also uploaded a photo of where he got the handwriting from, as Llŷr had written his name on the front of what looked like a school book.

The doctor was inundated with messages of support underneath the post, as one person wrote: ‘A beautiful loving connection that lives on.’

‘This has brought tears to my eyes,’ someone else said, while another person commented: ‘This is beautiful he’s always with you.’

In his birthday tribute to Llŷr this year, Alex explained that while he had spoken at length over the previous year about how hard it had been to lose his brother, he felt ‘sad’ that he hadn’t ‘talked more about the person he was’.

‘Let me tell you a little about him. Llŷr was kind, sensitive, funny, loved his cars, and was a great brother and son,’ he said.

‘He was exceptionally clever and a great sportsman. We used to speak for hours about the latest cars and what our dream one would be. Llŷr loved his sport so much, at school he used to score try after try in rugby.

‘He was a perfectionist at heart. When he got into basketball he used to practice shooting at the net for hours each evening.’

Alex described his sibling as ‘an empath like no one I have ever known’, saying that ‘in many ways he felt your pain and your struggles deeply and always wanted to help’.

While speaking on the Thanks A Million podcast in January 2021, the TV personality in what happened to Llŷr.

‘The shame is the loss of his life, not that it was via suicide. So I very much wanted to tell people what had happened because I think that was important in his memory as well,’ he said.