The mother of Sittingbourne schoolgirl Ellie Paine has paid a heart-breaking tribute to her daughter.

In a message on a gofundme page set up in Ellie’s memory, Jody Foster tells how she washed and dried her daughter’s hair and painted her nails for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed.

The 16-year-old Highsted Girls Grammar pupil was hit by a car as she crossed the A2 Canterbury Road on Sunday, November 1, and died at King’s College Hospital, London, three days later while still in a coma.

Mrs Foster said: “We held her hand for days as our brave daughter battled to survive.

“We played her messages from friends and family, laughed about our stories, sang songs and prayed so very hard until the news came that the injuries where just too big to mend. No more fixing with cuddles, kisses, plasters or glue for my baby girl.

“So I bathed her, washed and dried her hair, we painted her nails and then dressed her ready for bed.

“We were then very blessed to spend some time with her as a family. Her siblings all by her side. We snuggled up in bed and I held her until she fell asleep in my arms for the last time. Her brother, dad and stepdad all there to hold her hands, too, while she passed.”

Mrs Foster added: “Our beautiful, kind-hearted, spirited, princess Ellie is now a beautiful angel in the sky. We are beyond broken and cannot describe the pain we are all in.”

The gofundme page was put together by family friend Emma Grigg and has raised £1,165 which will be split between six charities.

Emma said: “Ellie had not long turned 16. What happened is beyond comprehension and everyone is still in shock.

“We have created this campaign with permission to offer a place where messages of condolence can be left and donations to the charities of the services which helped, supported and cared for Ellie and her family following her accident, can be made.”

The organisations to benefit are King’s College Hospital, child bereavement charity Abigail’s Footsteps, the Rhys Daniels Trust which provides free ‘home from home’ accommodation at specialist children’s hospitals, Memory Makers which creates hand a foot casts, 4Louis which supports families affected by the death of a child and The Aspinall Foundation which runs Howletts and Port Lympne wild animal parks and was a cause Ellie was passionate about.

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