{"id":642869,"date":"2026-06-17T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:19:10","slug":"preston-davey-vigil-live-as-mourners-gather-in-honour-of-tragic-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642869\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston Davey vigil LIVE as mourners gather in honour of tragic toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A vigil is set to take place tonight in honour of tragic <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/greater-manchester-news\/inside-courtroom-sick-baby-preston-34126371\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Preston Davey<\/a> on what would have been fourth birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Tonight (June 16), at 8pm, a gathering will take place on Preston Flag Market to honour the memory of the little boy. Members of the public are invited to bring candles, bubbles and teddies to remember Preston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Members of the Justice For Preston Davey Facebook group have also encouraged those unable to attend in person to light a candle at home at 8pm in his memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">So far this evening, a number of people have been posting pictures of lit candles in their homes as they pay their respects to the youngster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Happy 4th birthday sweetheart,&#8221; one person wrote. Another posted: &#8220;We have lit a candle for you the most precious angel may u rest In peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vigil is set to take place tonight in honour of tragic Preston Davey on what would have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,4584,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-lancashire","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}