User blog:3krok/Youngster Sonic fan drowns, funeral attendants wear blue to support his love of Sonic

'To the best big brother ever! We will always miss you': Boy, four, who slipped off jetty and drowned is laid to rest in a Sonic the Hedgehog coffin

Dylan Cecil was on holiday visiting his grandparents when he fell into the water at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset on Sunday August 19 His parents, Rachel McCollum and Darren Cecil, attempted to save their son Hundreds of mourners turned out to pay their last respects to the youngster, at St Mary’s Church in Kettering this afternoon

Mother read a poem to mourners

His parents, Rachel McCollum and Darren Cecil, attempted to save their boy, while emergency services quickly launched a search and rescue operation. The body was discovered by a member of the public under a floating jetty at the mouth of the River Brue, near Burnham-on-Sea Yacht Club - half a mile from where Dylan went missing. At St Mary’s Church in Kettering this afternoon hundreds of mourners turned out to pay their last respects to the youngster, many wearing blue in honour of Dylan’s beloved Kettering Town FC and Sonic the hedgehog. Mr Cecil was one of the pall-bearers who lifted his son’s blue coffin, which also had a picture of Sonic on the side and a football scarf draped over it, out of the white horse-drawn carriage and carried it into church.

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