'One day I will take your hand and lead you to paradise': Heartbreaking farewell to MJ

Those were the heartbreaking words of Vicky Maybin as she said her final goodbye to her three-year-old son, Matthew Junior Rowland George Maybin, known as MJ.

The youngster died on August 20 after being knocked down near his home at The Scotlands, Wolverhampton.

After helping carry his coffin into St Mary's Church, Bushbury, Vicky bravely addressed around 250 friends and family who attended yesterday's funeral.

She added: "Until then if you want to see me you've only got to close your eyes."

Many of those who gathered donned T-shirts with a picture of MJ while others wore wellies in memory of his favourite footwear.

His coffin, which was adorned with characters from his favourite TV show PAW Patrol, arrived at the church on a horse-drawn hearse

Then his father, 28-year-old Matthew Brough, helped partner Vicky, 30, carry it inside.

After an opening prayer, Reverend Graham Smith paid tribute to MJ, who had been due to start at Bushbury Hill Nursery.

He said: "His mother always told him he would break lots of hearts but she never expected it to happen as soon as it has.

"His was a very short but a most treasured life."

There was not a dry eye in the house as Ellie Goulding's cover of 'How Long Will I Love You?' was played aloud.

The crowd was so large that friends and family stood in doorways and in rows at the back of the church.

As the service came to an end, the PAW Patrol theme song was played as MJ's mother and father again helped carry the coffin outside.

MJ was incredibly close to his two sisters Brodie, nine, and Lola-May, six, and had just finished Terrific Twos at Low Hill Nursery.

A week after his death hundreds gathered outside the family's home in Keats Road to release hundreds of blue balloons into the sky.