Le Bachelets end search for stone for JP’s grave

Monday 25th April 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Mandy Le Bachelet alongside the granite headstone which the family finally found after months of searching. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1118863)

A FAMILY who battled to keep a temporary cross on their son’s grave while they searched for a suitable headstone have finally found their permanent memorial.

On 17 March, friends and family of JP Le Bachelet gathered at his grave at Vale Church to commemorate what would have been his 17th birthday.

A few days before a Guernsey granite headstone was placed as a permanent marker of where he was laid to rest.

But for months the family had to fight cemetery regulations to keep a homemade wooden cross on the site, as policy stipulated that temporary markers were allowed only for half a year.