Connecticut school shooting: British victim Dylan Hockley, 6, could not wait to move to America The family moved to the United States from Eastleigh, Hampshire, two years ago. When choosing a home in Connecticut, Dylan's parents, Ian and Nicole, had been keen to find an area where their sons could continue with their sports and Newtown appeared to have seemed ideal. "Where they live is an absolutely wonderful place," Judith Hockley said. It's a very safe place and it's a wonderful place to bring up children. They wanted to choose a place that was near work and near Nicole's mother and a good place for the boys with sports. Three years ago Nicola Hockley, Dylan's American-born mother wrote on Twitter: "Will I ever move back to the US and show my boys the dee-lites there?" Judith Hockley, who is married to Ian's brother Kevin, described the agonising wait for news on Friday night and Saturday morning after the massacre at the boys' school was reported. "We knew something was up on Friday night," she said. We knew the boys went to that school. We were all waiting by the phone, then we heard confirmation very early on Saturday morning. The family are understandably heartbroken. Dylan was wonderful to be around and will be sorely missed by his brother, parents and immediate family. He was gorgeous and I've never known brothers like him and Jake - they were best mates. Dylan's grandparents, Thomas and Ivy Hockley, and his uncle Kevin, who all live in the Peterborough area, have flown to the US to be with Dylan's parents, she said.