Less than a fortnight has passed since her daughter Katie, 7, was found murdered in a York playing field, and today mum Alison honored her little girl’s memory in a heartbreaking Facebook post.
In a tribute to her ‘beautiful, sassy, kind and amazing’ daughter,” the bereaved mother shared an image of what is believed to be her and her husbands arms, both featuring tribute tattoos to their little girl.
The heartbreaking tribute reads:
“My beautiful beautiful sassy, kind, amazing girl. I love her more than any words could even come close to explaining. Life will never ever be the same again. My children, my grandson and my husband are my whole entire life, I live only for them. #teamrough xxxxx.”
The poem under the little girl’s name and a picture of the striped hat from ‘Cat in the Hat’, which reads: ‘Today you are You/ that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer that You.’ Which, of course, is an extract from the book Happy Birthday to You!’, the 1959 children’s book by Dr. Seuss.
Tragic Katie Rough was, according to MailOnline, found with ‘lacerations to her neck and chest’ in an alleyway a mile from her home in York on Monday, January 9th. A 15-year-old is currently in custody after being charged with murder and possession of a knife.
On Monday this week, Alison and her husband Paul were joined by hundreds of well-wishers, including the Archbishop of York, who gathered to mark what would have been their daughter’s eighth birthday. The crowd, who were gathered in a park beside Westfield Primary School, where Katie was a pupil, sang a chorus of ‘Happy Birthday’ as they released hundreds of balloons into the sky.
