Mother tells of Danielle’s last moments

THE mother of Danielle Beccan, the English schoolgirl killed yards from her home in a drive-by shooting, told yesterday how she cradled her dying daughter just minutes after the apparently motiveless attack.

Paula Platt rushed to her daughter as she lay in the street in the St Ann’s area of Nottingham, another victim of the city’s gun crime epidemic. Mrs Platt spoke of her last words to 14-year-old Danielle: “I love you. Come back to us, I will be waiting for you.”

“I love you too mum,” replied Danielle shortly before she died in hospital of a single gunshot wound to the chest.