He was a bright happy boy who was loved by all who knew him.

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Margaret Dudley, headteacher at Fleetwood High School, where Mrs Palmer worked, said Max was a pupil at a local primary school and described him as a "bright young boy".

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Judge Andrew Patience QC said "the life of a happy, bright, talented boy was wasted" and described the case as an "appalling human tragedy".

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She wrapped the necklace around her finger again, and this time it popped loose, flinging itself from her neck onto a bright, fuzzy photograph of a boy and a girl, laughing, having fun against a backdrop of sparkling water.

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