'The love shown for our Mylo is unbelievable'

FAMILY SAY THANK YOU AFTER FRANTIC SEARCH ENDS IN TRAGEDY

- By FELICITY COLLINSON

MYLO Capilla’s family has thanked the public and described the love shown for the Ingleby schoolboy as ‘unbelievable’.

Mylo, 13, went missing on Thursday night after playing out with a friend at an area known as ‘The Muddies,’ near Ramsey Gardens in Ingleby Barwick. After night and day searches by multiple 999 crews, the body of a boy was found on Friday by officers searching the River Tees, which runs next to the site.

Formal identification is yet to take place but the All Saints Academy pupil's family were informed. Members of the public started to lay floral tributes and notes at the site in the housing estate, but police later put out a statement from the family requesting they be placed at St Francis of Assisi Church Centre.

Mylo’s family has now released a short statement on social media reading: “The love shown for our Mylo is unbelievable. I’m commenting here as seems to be a lot of people seeing it. The family have moved the flowers etc from Copper Gardens. Mylo’s mum wanted them all to be together at St Francis of Assisi church. We have taken and read all of the cards, drawings etc. and they will be in the church at the altar for people to read. We didn’t want them to get damaged from the rain. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts.”