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Charles Gray

Devastated friends want to buy memorial for Leeds boy, 12, who took own life

Thousands of pounds have been raised to place a memorial tree with a plaque in memory of a Leeds schoolboy that took his own life.

The friends of 12-year-old Layth Maumonait decided to raise money so that they could place something to remember him by at King Lane Park where they used to play together after their schooldays at Allerton High School.

Layth, a year seven pupil, tragically died in April after taking his own life. His father Ali Maumoniat told Leeds Live that his son had struggled following the death of his mother two years prior.

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