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Remembering little Sam Trott

Landsdale toddler Sam Trott and a city’s desperate efforts to find him will be remembered with a memorial at Sam’s favourite park.

The search for the blonde-haired, blue-eyed autistic boy galvanised a community when he went missing from his Walbrook Mews home on December 9.

Despite an unprecedented public search that lasted into the early hours of the morning, police divers found his body the next day in Snake Swamp at Warradale Park, just 600m from home.

Wanneroo council last night voted to set aside $150,000 in their 2015/16 draft budget for the construction of a memorial at Warradale Park.

The City of Wanneroo will work with the Trott family to draft a design which recognises Sam’s legacy of love and community spirit.

Thousands turned out for a memorial service for little Sam. Picture: Danella Bevis

Wanneroo Mayor Tracey Roberts said a sensitive, meaningful memorial was one way for the community to show its unity with the Trott family.

“Sam’s death touched everybody in the City of Wanneroo community,” she said.

“We don’t know what kind of memorial it will be yet. That’s something we’ll be working through with the family.

“It will be something that the family and the community will be able to visit to remember Sam.”