A man has been arrested after a seven-year-old boy was killed by a hit-and-run driver in horror hit-and-run as he played with his friends in his beloved Cristiano Ronaldo kit.
Kent Police have confirmed a 49-year-old man from the Dymchurch area was arrested and taken into custody.
William Brown was collecting his ball and was knocked down by a car on Sandgate Esplanade in Folkestone, Kent last night.
Speaking from her seafront home in Sandgate today William’s mother, Laura Brown, 41, revealed she brought him a toy octopus for Christmas, which she had already wrapped and will now put in his coffin.
After breaking down in tears she begged the driver of the vehicle to come forward so that she and William’s father, William Brown Senior, 34, could ‘be at peace and bury Will knowing we got justice for him’.
William Brown was playing with friends in his beloved Cristiano Ronaldo kit when he went to collect his ball and was knocked down by a car on Sandgate Esplanade in Folkestone, Kent last night
William was playing with friends while his mother made him his dinner when he was mowed down
She said: ‘William was the sweetest, kindest and funniest boy. He was an amazing friend to his friends. He loved animals, history facts, nature and digging. He loved fossils and dinosaurs. Anything weird and wonderful.
‘He loved curiosities and oddities. He loved taxidermy. He had shark’s teeth and spiders, snake skins. He was a very unusual boy.
‘For Christmas he wanted an octopus, so I got him a taxidermy one. He didn’t get to see it, it’s still wrapped. I’m going to put it in his coffin.
‘He was just always in Will’s world. He was too kind for this world.
‘If there was a question to ask he had to ask it. He needed to know the answers to everything.
‘He loved football. He supported Manchester United like his dad. But his favourite player of all time was Ronaldo. He died in his Ronaldo kit.’
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