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Wolverhampton mother killed in plane crash had 'everything to live for'

A former Wolverhampton woman killed alongside her husband in a plane crash has been described as a 'vivacious' mother and having 'everything to live for'.

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Sally Tonkinson, who was originally from Low Hill, and her husband Lewis, 50 were travelling from the Isle of Wight when the accident happened.

Their six-year-old son was pulled from the wreckage and is being treated for the injuries he suffered when the light aircraft he was travelling in came down in woodland near Popham Airfield, Hampshire.

The family lived in a large gated home in Alcester.

A female neighbour, who declined to be named, described the Tonkinsons as 'a lovely couple' and said it was an 'unbelievable tragedy'.

Lewis and Sally Tonkinson

The neighbour said she often spoke to Mrs Tonkinson, 44, who would be out walking her black Labrador, adding that she also had an older daughter who did not live at the house.

She said she had known Mrs Tonkinson for several years as they got their hair and nails done at the same place, and said the couple had been going to the United States just before Christmas.

"She was going to America, she'd never been there before. She was very much in love," she said.

"She used to live in Solihull before moving here.

"She was a pretty girl, very vivacious, and had her hair and nails done regularly - she was very glamorous.

"She was just pleasant, happy, pretty, slim, tall, blonde hair, nice figure, lovely girl. Her little boy was pretty as well."

The neighbour added that the couple spent 'a fortune' making the property and grounds 'drop-dead gorgeous' since moving in a few years ago.

"She had everything to live for, this girl," she said.

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