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Article: Hundreds bid final farewell to Troy
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2009
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Hundreds of people said their last goodbyes to talented 15-year-
old rugby player Troy Atkinson, who died in a hit-and-run crash in
Bristol city centre last month.
About 500 mourners, including Troy's relatives, friends, teachers
and rugby coaches, filled St Agnes Church in St Paul's to give the
popular teenager a moving send off.
The cost of the service was covered by donations made to Troy's
family at a sponsored rugby match organised by former team-mates and
a fundraising march from the spot where he was killed near Cabot
Circus to his home in Hartcliffe. Mourners, some sporting the "RIP
Troy" T-shirts worn on the march, filed into the church in Thomas
Street to some of the teenager's ...