Obituary: Bradley Lowery - ‘The little boy who was a light to many people in the darkness of suffering’

Bradley Lowery: Born May 17, 2011, died July 7, 2017.

They met for the first time in Sunderland’s dressing room at the Stadium of Light last September and said farewell in a County Durham mining village in July.

Bradley Lowery and Jermain Defoe knew each other for only 10 months, but they were 10 months that transformed both their lives.