Tributes pour in for toddler killed in Rawthorpe van tragedy

TEARFUL tributes poured in last night to a toddler killed in a tragic accident.

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00:00, 11 JAN 2013
Updated20:07, 11 JUL 2013

TEARFUL tributes poured in last night to a toddler killed in a tragic accident.

Little Poppy Boothroyd, 21 months, died after being caught behind a reversing van in Rawthorpe.

And her grieving family described the toddler as “our perfect little angel”.

They said: “Poppy was just Poppy. She was our amazing little girl, our perfect little angel.”

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