A heartbroken family is appealing to musicians to help unravel the final project of a young boy who died in a freak accident. 

Kyan Pennell tragically died on January 31 while opening a gate for his father, Ian, who was in the car with Kyan’s younger sister.

While the parents of the 12-year-old knew he was musically talented, they had no idea he was writing his own music before his death.

Sheet music he left behind is the only hope Ian and Amanda Brierley have of ever hearing their son’s work in the way he’d envisioned it.

“There was a blank music book and flicking through, there was nothing in it except right in the middle page, there was this composition,” Mrs Brierley told Neil Breen.

“He’d mentioned he was composing and I didn’t think much of it but when I found it, I instantly knew this was the piece he was talking about.”

Mrs Brierley hopes an orchestra could finish writing the piece and record it, to be played at Kyan’s funeral.

“It would mean a lot,” she said. “I can’t read music myself, I haven’t heard what he was composing.

“I just wanted anyone to be able to play it for us so that we had something we could remember him by and just a little insight into his mind.”

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