The heartshaped plate bears Maddie’s little handprints and the touching message, “I love you Grandma and Grandad, From Madeleine 2007.”
Maddie’s devastated gran Susan Healy showed off the plate yesterday and said: “This is so special I feel like locking it in a safe. I couldn’t bear anything to happen to it – the handprints are the closest thing we have to a physical reminder of her."
Susan, told how Maddie made the plate at nursery school with the help of her teacher. The three-year-old did handprints in pink and purple paint while the teacher wrote the message. Maddie proudly told her gran about the gift in a phone call – but never got the chance to deliver it in person because she then went on holiday to Praia da Luz in
Susan added: “It was my last gift from Madeleine. We’ve got photos all over the house, but this is different. It is very, very precious.” (The Sun)
