Just five days be­fore An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie would have turned eight years old, hun­dreds gath­ered—not to cel­e­brate her birth­day, but to bid farewell to a child who was re­mem­bered as be­ing full of warmth and love.

At her Mon­key Town, Bar­rack­pore home yes­ter­day, feel­ings of grief and sor­row were over­whelm­ing as fam­i­ly mem­bers and mourn­ers paid trib­ute to “sweet Saydee.”

“Mum­my loves you,” wept her moth­er, Sal­isha Jo­gie, as she ten­der­ly ca­ressed her daugh­ter’s face and kissed her in her glit­ter­ing cof­fin, adorned with pink and pur­ple but­ter­flies, with a stuffed toy placed in­side.