Today, a little white coffin, adorned with rainbow stripes and pink butterflies, carried little Olivia Pratt-Korbel to her final resting place.
Before the cortège arrived, primary school children, gently encouraged by their teachers, hung the name of their murdered friend in big pink letters on the railings outside their school, St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior.
Then a broken family fought to hold it together on the most difficult of days, the grief etched on their faces at odds with the cheerful splashes of pink on scarves, ties, and dresses in the crowds of mourners.
