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17/06/2009
Beachy Head Jump Family Funeral To Be Held
The funeral service for a Wiltshire couple who jumped off a cliff in Eastbourne following the death of their disabled child, is to take place today.
Neil, 34, and Kazumi Puttick, 44, leapt to their death from the cliff tops at Beachy Head, East Sussex, with the body of their five-year-old son Sam in a rucksack on 1 June.
Sam, whose body was found in the bag about 400ft down the cliffs, had recently died from meningitis.
His parents' bodies were discovered alongside him, after coastguards on routine patrol first saw what they thought were two bodies part-way down the cliff face.
A funeral service for all three will take place later at All Saints Church, Westbury, Whiltshire, where they lived.
An inquest into Sam's death and those of his mother and father was opened and adjourned by the Sussex coroner. A full hearing is to be heard at a later date.
(JM/BMcc)
Neil, 34, and Kazumi Puttick, 44, leapt to their death from the cliff tops at Beachy Head, East Sussex, with the body of their five-year-old son Sam in a rucksack on 1 June.
Sam, whose body was found in the bag about 400ft down the cliffs, had recently died from meningitis.
His parents' bodies were discovered alongside him, after coastguards on routine patrol first saw what they thought were two bodies part-way down the cliff face.
A funeral service for all three will take place later at All Saints Church, Westbury, Whiltshire, where they lived.
An inquest into Sam's death and those of his mother and father was opened and adjourned by the Sussex coroner. A full hearing is to be heard at a later date.
(JM/BMcc)
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