A BRAVE three-year-old from Southall has succumbed to leukaemia after a long battle with the disease.

Kye Carpenter, who was diagnosed in 2010, passed away at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital on Saturday afternoon with his parents, grandparents and other members of his close family at his side.

His mother Laura said: “Please don't tell me you know how I feel unless you have lost a child too. Please don't tell me my broken heart will heal, because that is just not true.  Please don't tell me my son is in a better place.  Though it is true; I want him here with me”.

More on this as we get in.