The service was attended by over 300 friends and family. There are no images of the surviving children to respect their privacy, They look well despite the tragic circumstances they suffered on the 8th December 2010 at their Melton Home.
Short mobile phone video of those who attending All Saints Church Oakham
Four Hymns were sung:
One more step along the world I go....
There are loved ones in the glory...
Christ be in my waking, as the sun is rising...
Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Rachael Roost Read You Can Shed Tears. There was Contributions from St. Francis School, including The Prayer and Shine.
A tribute was given by Darren Smith.
There was time for reflection including The Dragonfly Story read by Reverend Audrey Atkinson.
Another tribute given by Becky Kirkpatrick.
John Neal read If Tears Could Build A Stairway.
Seating reserved for the Neal Family
Seating Reserved for the Day Family
Early Years Nursery where Sam Day worked
No seating was reserved for Leicestershire Constabulary
those members of the constabulary or retired attended
out of uniform, a uniformed officer said the Constabulary
was keeping a low profile and dashed off into the distance.
Camera Crews from BBC and ITV arrived early
Canon Lee Francis-Dehqani explaining events to a BBC
reporter for the BBC East Midlands Today Lunchtime show.
Regular readers will know I have a naughty sense of
humour and deliberately took the above to show
Canon Lee's support for one united church.
Unkown Press Photographer
Canon Lee gives interview to ITV Central News.
The last time I photographed this reporter he had
a camera and sound man (cuts!) and had come to
Oakham after a local woman was arrested for
having sex on a Dubai beach.
The sun came out as Oakham's Mayor Councillor
Joyce Lucas arrived.
BBC Radio Leicester set up its transmitter in Church Street
Car Park
Nice reporter from the Rutland Times, Mercury and Melton Times
Who's name I have forgot.
The High Sheriff of Rutland Peter Lawson
and his good wife arriving.
Camera Woman outside the Wheatsheaf Pub
who enjoyed a busy lunchtime trade.
Mr Taylor from BBC Radio Leicester chats with the Peterborough
Diocese Communications Officer
Friends and Family start to arrive at All Saints Church Oakham
Local Photographer Jim Harrison (Leicester Mercury)
Michael Cooke Melton Times Editor gives an interview to BBC EMT News
all about the Trust Fund his paper set up for the children.
Canon Lee gives the BBC another interview at the
end of the service and a reporter takes notes
The ITV reporter was called away to Nottingham
for live coverage of a hearing there.
Order of Service Collected at the end
because I am 'not proper press'
Friends and Family Leaving
Donations were taken and divided between
Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance,
The Samaritans
All Saint's Church Oakham
and
St Peter's and St Paul's Church, Market Overton
Richard Barnes Funeral Directors
Wilton Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 0UJ
Telephone 01664 565311
