A little girl who lost her grandad to coronavirus has been texting to ask him to "please come back". Neil Robinson was a fit and healthy 62-year-old, so his family expected him to get better when he contracted Covid-19 during the country's first lockdown.
But their world came crashing down when their beloved husband, father and grandfather took a turn for a worse. He was taken to Glenfield Hospital and put onto a ventilator, but died just ten days later, Leicestershire Live reports.
Since his death in April, one of his granddaughters, Lucia Di Marco, 8, has been writing a text to him every day on her iPad.
The messages, which include 'Miss you so so so so so so so so so so much' and 'Please come back' are each followed with a red 'not