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Hundreds gather for boy's funeral | |
(about 14 hours later) | |
Hundreds of mourners gathered to say an emotional farewell to schoolboy Jack Anderson, who died after being knocked down by a car in Edinburgh. | |
The 10-year-old was knocked down on a pedestrian crossing 200 yards from his Edinburgh home on 5 October. | |
His parents, Michael and Yvonne, were joined by more than 200 mourners at the city's Mortonhall Crematorium. | |
Michael Purcell, 19, has appeared at the city's sheriff court accused of culpable homicide. | |
Lothian and Borders Police are still trying to trace two other men in connection with the incident. | Lothian and Borders Police are still trying to trace two other men in connection with the incident. |
Pallbearers carried the schoolboy's pine coffin on Friday as a piper played his favourite song, the Star Wars theme. | |
Minister Fiona Mathieson told mourners: "Jack Anderson was just a normal wee boy who had his life ahead of him and that life has been snatched away." |