Please let Kyle rest in peace

A SOMPTING couple have called Adur Council heartless because of a dispute over the design of their dead son's gravestone.

Ten-year-old Kyle Munday, a devoted Newcastle United fan and a member of Adur Athletic Club's under-11s football team, died in April last year from an infection following an operation.

He is buried in the council-run Lancing and Sompting cemetery.

His parents, Andy and Sophie, wanted to have black and white footballs and the words Newcastle United etched on the back of the gravestone.

Mr Munday claimed that in January the council refused permission for the design and told them that the words Newcastle United would attract the wrong sort of people to the cemetery.

Mr Munday said they then asked if football patches could be etched on the back of their son's gravestone, but Adur Council again refused permission.

The grave is currently marked with a cross, and Mr and Mrs Munday have made an official complaint to the council about the decision.