I want to start this update by saying a massive ‘thank you’ to you all for your support. Hitting 10,000 signatures last week was amazing and we are incredibly grateful. We read all your comments and you have shown such empathy and kindness… thank you! 

As we approach the 9th week since our beautiful Lillie’s heart stopped beating, we are busy making plans for Lillie’s funeral. Even as I write that it doesn’t feel real… it can’t be, this must be a nightmare. How can Lillie be gone? She had so much to live for - how could this have happened? I’ve mentioned this in previous updates but it really is a living nightmare. 

Since that first knock on the door on the 25th December, nothing has been easy; we feel like at every step all we hear is ‘No’ and there is another challenge to overcome! 

Traditionally, we don’t leave our loved ones at a funeral undertakers after they have passed, we bring them home, where they belong, to be with their families until the time comes to say goodbye. In fact, we don’t say good bye either, we say good night… 

This was no less stressful than the previous weeks. It would seem that getting Lillie home is not going to be easy… unlike our family before her, Lillie can not be taken to her bedroom… health and safety! All options were discussed (including taking the front window out) and we are at the stage now where my sister is literally going to take an internal wall down to make sure Lillie can spend her last few nights at home with her mum, brother and the rest of us. Once Lil is home, we won’t leave her! 

Everyone asks, how are you and you can’t answer because you don’t know how you are. Obviously it’s a million times worse for my sister and nephew however, Lillie’s passing has hit us all, very hard and this is for the rest of our lives! Lil (Frilly I called her), will be missed forever! 

With so much going on, we still can’t believe that a family has to fight to get justice for something that is right! Why should any family have to fight? The sentencing we have should already fit the crime! Knowing your child’s ‘killer’, ‘murderer’ is still living their life with no consequences (they are!!) is pure torture… 
Thank you all - stay safe and tell one another you love them… don’t leave it, life is too precious ❤️