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A funeral service has taken place for a couple from Wiltshire who jumped to their deaths at Beachy Head after their disabled son died. Hundreds of people gathered for the funeral service of a Wiltshire couple who jumped to their deaths at Beachy Head with their dead disabled son.
Neil, 34, and Kazumi Puttick, 44, leapt from the cliff tops near Eastbourne, East Sussex, with the body of five-year-old Sam in a rucksack on 1 June.Neil, 34, and Kazumi Puttick, 44, leapt from the cliff tops near Eastbourne, East Sussex, with the body of five-year-old Sam in a rucksack on 1 June.
The service for all three was held at All Saints Church in Westbury. Sam had died of meningitis three days earlier.
An inquest into their deaths was opened and adjourned by the Sussex coroner and a full hearing will be held later. At the funeral at All Saints Church in Westbury, Sam's coffin had been adorned with toy tractors and flowers.
The five-year-old had been confined to a wheelchair after a car crash when he was 18 months old.
He died of meningitis at home shortly after being discharged from hospital where he had been given no hope of survival.
Prayers and poems
More than 200 friends and family filled the 14th Century church where the order of service was written in both English and Japanese.
During the service there were hymns, prayers and poems for the family.
After the hymns All Things Bright And Beautiful and Shine Jesus Shine were sung, the song Edelweiss was played from Sam's favourite film The Sound Of Music.
An inquest into the family's deaths was opened and adjourned by the Sussex coroner and a full hearing will be held later.
Sam's body was found in the rucksack about 400ft down the cliffs, alongside his parents' bodies, after coastguards on routine patrol first saw what they thought were two bodies part-way down the cliff face.Sam's body was found in the rucksack about 400ft down the cliffs, alongside his parents' bodies, after coastguards on routine patrol first saw what they thought were two bodies part-way down the cliff face.
A second rucksack found nearby by rescuers was filled with toys.A second rucksack found nearby by rescuers was filled with toys.