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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans

Parents of boy killed in hit and run plea to Church of England to let him be buried in graveyard he played in

Will Brown Snr / SWNS

The parents of a boy killed in a hit-and-run in Kent have pleaded for the Church of England to allow him to buried in the historic graveyard where he played every day after school.

Seven-year-old William Brown had been wearing his Cristiano Ronaldo football kit when he was hit by a car outside his home in Folkestone on Wednesday evening. He had jumped over the wall to retrieve his ball when tragedy struck. Kent Police arrested a 49-year-old man on Thursday.

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