He had a Lovely smile: Owen Wightman, 6, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Wakefield on Saturday
This was the heartbreaking moment when a 12-year-old boy confronted the terrible loss of his little brother in a hit-and-run tragedy.
As police stepped up their hunt for the driver who killed six-year-old Owen Wightman, his brother Jack sat weeping at the scene of his death.
Among the tributes placed by grief-stricken family and friends, Jack left flowers, a cuddly monkey toy and a note that read: ‘You were the best bro ever. Even when we used to fight and argue I still loved you.’
Detectives have recovered CCTV images of the car that hit Owen as he crossed a road near his home in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on Saturday and are urging the driver to hand himself in.After hitting Owen, the driver is said to have got out of his car a short distance away to inspect the damage before speeding off.Owen’s parents, Neil, 33, and Julie, 31, who also have a one-year-old son, Thomas, added their voices to the police appeal yesterday.
‘We have lost our baby and ask for someone to please come forward so we can lay him to rest,’ they said.
‘He was a perfect little man who was taken from us. He walked into a room and lit it up. He was our bundle of joy and our ray of sunshine.
l read this stoy and l felt so bad becuase he was so little and so much life ahead of him and some stupid fool took all that way
REST IN PEACE OWEN
