A two-year-old boy died in his sleep after going to bed when his family got back from a trip to the park. Mum Catherine Brumfitt, 37, said she and her children had had a viral infection.
Doctors tested Albie for Covid-19 but he appeared to be getting better. She took Albie to their local park before going home and putting her son to bed, along with his brothers Jenson and Caleb.
When she got up the next morning, Albie wouldn't wake up. She told The Echo: "He was very cheeky, he was just a happy and loving little boy. Him and Jenson were just inseparable. They were together all the time. Caleb has additional needs so he wasn't as involved. It was always Jenson and Albie together.
"He was just so happy and cheeky, your typical two-year-old boy. He was lovely.
"It was hard, me and my partner feel as though we didn't have time to grieve. I tried to do CPR on Albie and bring him back but we didn't realise he had been dead for too long.
"We thought he was sleeping in because he had been up in the night. We've tried to all support each other because we're a big family. Albie was a well-known child in the area, everyone loved him."
Albie died after contracting bronchopneumonia. Catherine is raising money for Wirral Wings and Alder Hey's snowdrop team. She said: "It'll be a nice way of remembering Albie. Wirral Wings are amazing, even now they're checking in and offering support.
"When Albie died they got in touch with me and they ended up making his suit that he got cremated in out of my sister's wedding dress."
Albie died in May 2021.
To visit Catherine's Facebook group, In Memory of Albie Farrell, click here.
