Parents heartbroken as grave for stillborn daughter dumped in SKIP by council workers

A display for a stillborn baby girl buried in a Stockport cemetery has been ‘thrown in a skip’, her grieving parents say.

Ryan Stokes and Keelie Walker lost their daughter, Valencia, last June.

They believe that they lost their baby after Keelie caught Covid, and they buried her in Mill Lane Cemetery in Cheadle.

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The pair describe their plot as ‘our beautiful little place’ which they visit to ease the unbearable pain of losing Valencia.

Ryan and Keelie, along with their other children, had created a small display for their child having been told they were allowed the garden so long as it only extended one foot away from her plot.

Now, after other displays were cleared by Stockport Council last year, Ryan says his daughter’s spot has been hit — and staff have ‘thrown’ his possessions ‘in a skip’.

“It’s disgusting,” the heartbroken dad, 35, told the Manchester Evening News. “I was told I [could] go a foot out. She has only been there for six months.

“I am just over a foot out [from my plot] and they have taken the lot out and thrown it in a skip.”

The dad even went so far as to say he wants to see Valencia's grave exhumed.

He explained: "I want to have my baby moved. I want her dug up."

Mill Lane has been the site of angry clashes between bereaved families, police, and enforcement officers when clearances took place last December.

Ryan says he and Keelie, also 35, knew about the ongoing issues in the cemetery - but they believed their plot would not be affected for two reasons.

One was that they were within the ‘one-foot’ they could extend into, and the other is that Valencia is buried in the babies and cremations section.

However, with their shocking