‘A farewell ball for my beautiful sweetheart’

DUNDEE youngster Freya Skene will begin her final journey from the primary school she attended when the “beautiful sweetheart” is laid to rest. A carriage carrying the sevenyear-old will leave Clepington School with a release of brightlycoloured balloons and mourners asked to embrace the fairy princess theme in what her grieving mum has said will be a celebration of her wee girl’s life.

Details of her Friday funeral were released as a crowdfunder in Freya’s memory passed the

£21,000 mark. She died after being pulled from the waters of the River Braan, in Perthshire, on July 6.

Freya and her mum, Brooke Reid, got into difficulties close to Ossian’s Cave at The Hermitage beauty spot, near Dunkeld. They were rushed to Ninewells Hospital, but although Ms Reid escaped serious injury, Freya was pronounced dead.

Ms Reid said: “Due to the restrictions we are only allowed 30 people to attend the funeral, but people are more than welcome to be at her school to let off a balloon, on the route of her carriage or outside the crematorium where we will have more balloons to let off.

“We will be having a fairy ball for her at the end with safe social distancing measures – please, if you are coming to pay your respects or say your goodbyes, be in your brightest colours, fanciest dress, glittered up with flower crowns or embracing the fairy and princess theme. This is a celebration of her life, her farewell ball for the beautiful sweetheart that she was.”