Pink tribute to tragic Jodie

HUNDREDS dressed in pink yesterday at the funeral of a mother of one who was stabbed to death at a supermarket where she worked days before Christmas.

Jodie Willsher, 30, was killed at Aldi in Skipton, North Yorkshire, on December 21.

Her husband Malcolm, 36, fought back tears as he helped wheel his wife’s coffin into Christ Church in Skipton, where they married in 2011.

The couple’s five-year-old daughter Megan wore a fabric flower in pink, her mother’s favourite colour.

More than 250 people gathered for the funeral which Jodie’s family said would be a “celebration of her life”.

Songs by Pink and Let It Go from the Disney film Frozen were played before the service. Mr Willsher told the congregation Jodie and Megan had been “best friends” and her death left a “great hole in our lives”.

The Rev Ruth Harris said: “Jodie was a woman full of fun, life and vitality who was a great colleague, a friend, an adoring mother, a caring daughter, a devoted wife.”

Aldi closed as a mark of respect and to allow colleagues to attend.

Neville Hord, 44 – an ex-boyfriend of Jodie’s mother, Nikki Dinsdale – was held by customers at the scene of the attack until police arrived.

He has been charged with murder and is due to appear at Bradford Crown Court on January 26.