Girl in the coat says: We’ll never forget you, Mum
A GIRL of 12 whose mother was killed in the Manchester bombing paid tribute at her funeral, saying: “I love you all the way to the moon and back and a billion times more.”
Millie Kiss, 12, said mum Michelle, who was waiting to pick her up after the Ariana Grande concert, added: “You will never ever be forgotten. I know we only knew each other for 12 years but it felt like a lifetime.”
A picture of uninjured Millie in an oversize coat being comforted by a policewoman is one of the enduring images in the wake of the May attack that claimed 22 lives.
Yesterday Millie walked behind the hearse, along with her father Tony and brothers Dylan, 20, and Elliot, 17, as her mother’s coffin was taken to church.
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Tony and the sons acted as pallbearers as it was carried into St Alban’s Catholic Church in Blackburn, Lancs, while a choir sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Millie’s emotional tribute to her mother, 45, was read out for her. It went on: “I can’t even put into words how much you are missed. Elvis [the family dog] is missing his treats and his walks with his mummy.
“I ask myself every day why do the good people get given the worst things. Life is going to be so different without my mum by my side but I am going to remember you, Mum, with your beautiful smile and pretty face and sparkling eyes.”
A tribute from Tony was also read, which said: “Our lives have been changed forever by these horrific events but we are asking people to choose love, because that’s what we as a family are doing now.”
Prayers were said for the other victims and those in the London Bridge atrocity.