A South Cheshire estate agent is continuing his campaign to help the people of Ukraine after his eighth trip to the war-torn country. 

Gary Fear started raising funds for Ukraine after hearing about the former Sandbach School pupil Jordan Gatley (24), who was shot dead in Ukraine in June 2022. 

Now Gary, who works for Butters John Bee in Nantwich, has started organising his ninth trip which will take place in September. 

Gary fear hands out food to people in the Ukraine. (Photo: Gary Fear)

Gary constantly raises cash for Ukraine, this time taking around £15,000 which bought 900 bags of food and two generators. 

"It's still as dreadful as it was in the beginning. The village where we were staying got shelled," said Gary who uses most of his annual leave going to Ukraine three times a year. 

"It's just not in the news so much but it's still as bad." 

Gary, who lives near Stafford, got in touch with Jordan Gatley's father to see what he could do to help. 

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"He came out with us on one trip and I will continue to do all I can to help," Gary added. 

Gary says the latest trip was the most dangerous yet. 

"My eighth trip was by far the most successful, most scary and most exhausting time but we achieved so much." 

Sandbach's Jordan Gatley was shot dead in th Ukraine. (Photo: Nub News)

He spends around eight days a time on the trips and has set up a JustGiving page for the fundraising here already raising £78,413 to date.  

An adviser to the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that Jordan was a "true hero" at the time of his death. 

A bench has in memory of Jordan Gatley was put up near the Cenotaph in Sandbach. (Photo: Nub News)

Jordan studied at Sandbach School before leaving to attend Reaseheath College in Nantwich to study public services before joining the Army. 

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He had left the Army but decided to go to the Ukraine to join the Ukrainian forces to fight against Russian invaders have been announced. 

A special bench and plaque in Jordan Gatley's memory has been put up near the Cenotaph in Sandbach in his memory. 

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