Family, friends and fellow students gathered to pay a final tribute to teenager Yazmina Howard, who died after falling from a motorway bridge.

Around 80 people filled the chapel at Vinters Park Crematorium in Maidstone this morning for the funeral service.

The teenager fell to her death from a motorway bridge over the M20 on Monday, October 2, 15 years after her mother jumped from a seven-storey building clutching a then three-year-old Yazmina in her arms.

Her coffin was carried in by friends and relatives.

In a service which featured some of Yazmina's favourite pieces of music, celebrant Val Scott related some of the family's happy memories of the 18-year-old's short life.

Yazmina was described as a typical teenager in that she loved fashion and make-up and could spend hours shopping for clothes online or visiting the Bluewater shopping centre with her nan, Janet Howard.

She, with her husband Michael, had adopted Yazmina as their own child after the death of her mother when she was just three.

But Yazmina was untypical in that she was described as having a great sense of her own character, with her own style and a determination to succeed.

She loved art and fashion and having passed through Southborough Primary School and Maplesden Noakes Secondary School she had been studying at the Mid Kent College.

Mourners heard how the family's East Farleigh home would always ring with laughter wherever she was in the house.

She loved art - and coffee - and would sometimes combine the two sitting for hours in Starbucks, drinking coffee and working on her design.

She loved animals - and this love had led her to become a vegan.

The service included music by Westlife - I'll see you again; Ariana Grande's One Last Time and Celine Dion's Fly and a poem "Missing you Granddaughter", chosen by her Nan, Janet.

A retiring collection was held for the charity MIND.

Yazmina's mother, Maxine Carr, died in 2003, after jumping from a seventh-floor balcony, while holding her daughter, who was seriously injured in the fall.

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