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PALLBEARERS take Kamilah on her final journey.
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Final farewell for tragic Kamilah
25/ 5/2007
FAMILY and friends said a final goodbye last Friday at the funeral of Kamilah Peniston, the 12-year-old girl shot dead at home in Gorton.
Kamilah suffered a single gunshot wound to the head in Wembley Road, Gorton, in the early evening on 30 April.
She died a day later in hospital.
A 16-year-old boy is awaiting trial charged with murder.
Kamilah's schoolmates joined her griefstricken mother Natasha and her seven-year-old twin sisters for a requiem Mass.
A white horse-drawn carriage bore her coffin from Culcombe Walk in Longsight and made its way to St Kentigan's RC Church in Fallowfield, south Manchester, followed by a cortege of 35 cars.
Her white coffin, adorned with a floral tribute spelling her name, was then carried into the church by six pallbearers, followed by hundreds of friends and family, packing into the church.
A special bus brought around 30 of Kamilah's closest classmates from her school, St Thomas Aquinas RC, in the city.
Ed Wyllie, headmaster at her school, said Kamilah was a "model pupil" and neighbours described the youngster as a "little brain box" because of her habit of going straight to the local library after class to complete her homework.
Kamilah's coffin was brought into the service to the hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful, as mourners took their places.
A loving tribute from her mother was included on the order of service. It read: "You came to me early as a surprise, my first, eldest daughter, with big beautiful brown eyes.
"Kamilah you are my shining star. You will always be in my heart wherever you are. Mummy loves you, just as you are."
The cortege then left the church and made its way to the Southern Cemetery along Nell Lane where there was a private family burial.
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