GIRL SOBS as father's body FLOWN home

Natasha Jones, 11, was comforted by her mother Joanne as the cortege carrying Sergeant Andrew Jones passed through Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.

Hundreds lined the town’s High Street to pay tribute to Sgt Jones and Trooper Andrew Howarth.

Their families were joined by Royal British Legion members, soldiers, shopkeepers and members of the public, and the hearses carrying the Union Flag-draped coffins stopped for a minute’s silence.

Natasha, accompanied by her eight-year-old sister Caitlin, placed flowers on the roof of the hearse as it paused at the town’s war memorial.

Trooper Howarth’s family, including parents John and Sarah and older brother Marcus, 23, also threw flowers on the roof of his hearse.

Sgt Jones, 35, of the Royal Engineers, and Trooper Howarth, 20, of the Queen’s Royal Lancers, both died when the the Jackal armoured vehicle they were travelling in was hit by an insurgent bomb in Helmand Province.