'My heart is broken into pieces. You were my everything': Brooklyn Colbert laid to rest

The mother of tragic schoolboy Brooklyn Colbert paid a heartbreaking tribute to her beloved “brown-eyed boy” at his funeral Mass in Limerick today.

The letter, read out at St Saviours Church, on behalf of Brooklyn’s devastated mother Sonia Aylmer, described how he had been blessed with the “softest little protective soul”.