Dad hands out Amy Winehouse clothes - The Sun

A SAD fan wore a vest owned by Amy Winehouse yesterday - after the diva's dad gave her clothes away.

Marcella Wright, 17, said outside the London home where Amy, 27, died: "She was my idol."

The star's dad sadly doled out her belongings to mourners and insisted: "It's what she'd have wanted."

Cabbie Mitch, 60, stunned crowds holding a vigil at the pop diva's home by emerging with clothes, jewellery and trinkets.

He then began distributing the gear. Handing out some of her clothes in the street, he explained: "These are Amy's T-shirts. This is what she would have wanted - for her fans to have her clothes."

Londoner Brigitte Pividal, 52, was left clutching one of the Back To Black singer's red vests. She said: "I will cherish this for the rest of my life."

John Gallagher, 16 - whose dad got a pair of Amy's sunglasses - said of the T-shirts: "They were very small in size and skinny, like her figure."

Mitch went to the house in Camden, North London, with Amy's mum Janis, 56, and her brother Alex for the grim task of sorting through her things.

The singer - notorious for drugs and booze benders - was found dead on Saturday. Rabbi Frank Hellner said after conducting her funeral on Tuesday: "She was a frail little girl. I think it was too much for her body and she succumbed."

Yesterday Amy's grandad, her manager and her film director boyfriend Reg Traviss, 35, were also at her house.

Her most cherished items, including her guitar and notebooks, were taken away by the family. A pair of her ballet shoes were in her dad's back pocket. He declared sadly before leaving in a taxi: "God bless Amy Winehouse."

He and the rest of Amy's family later went to a synagogue to mark the final night of "sitting shiva" - the Jewish tradition for the first phase of mourning.

l.nicholls@the-sun.co.uk