em> The family of Dylan Hockley, the six-year-old British boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting spree, had only sold their home in Hampshire last week, it emerged on Sunday.
Dylan moved with his parents, Ian and Nicole, and brother, Jake, to the Connecticut town of Newtown last year.
Mr Hockley made permanent the family’s move last week when he visited Eastleigh to finalise the sale of the home in which they had lived for eight years, according to neighbours.
Mrs Hockley, 41 and originally from Rhode Island, recently told a local Newtown newspaper that they had found the perfect community in which to make a new life.
“This was the place, when we were driving around, where we felt happy and comfortable,” she said.
“The schools here have been amazing, and the people in my neighbourhood are incredible. We’re looking forward to being here a long, long time.”
Gunman Adam Lanza, 20, used his mother’s Bushmaster .223 assault rifle to kill 26 people at the school, including 20 children aged either six or seven, before taking his own life with a handgun as police officers closed in and sirens wailed.
Former Eastleigh neighbour Tony Frith, 76, said he had seen Hockley on Tuesday.
According to Frith, the father had showed off pictures of his children and described his “lovely” life in the US.
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