Hundreds line the streets for funeral of stabbed schoolboy Olly Stephens
Hundreds line the streets for funeral of stabbed schoolboy Olly Stephens

The family of an autistic schoolboy stabbed to death in a park in broad daylight have described him at his funeral service as “a loving, caring, funny soul who would stick up for the underdog”.Stuart Stephens, father of 13-year-old Oliver Lucas Stephens, said his son “touched so many lives without either us or himself knowing it”, during a service at Reading Crematorium on Friday.

The teenager, known to friends as Olly, was fatally attacked at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, Reading, on January 3.Interview: Matt Rodda MP, Reading East (Labour)