A statue for the late frontman of The Prodigy, Keith Flint, has been backed by the local council in Braintree, the hometown of the band. Flint died at the age of 49 on March 4, at his home in Essex.

A petition was started following the death of the singer, and has currently been signed by more than 10,000 people. On Monday 22, a meeting hosted by the Braintree District Council decided to hold further talks with Flint’s family, Leeroy Thornhill and Liam Howlett, (Flint’s bandmates), as well as the wider community of Prodigy fans.

The campaign was started by Saphya Gower, and she said that the band’s “music makes me feel alive, indestructible, invincible. I’ll be forever thankful to them”.

Born in Redbridge, North-East London, Flint formed the outfit with Liam Howlett and Leeory Thornhill in Braintree. The Prodigy are responsible for iconic tracks during the 1990’s, including ‘Firestarter’ and ‘Breathe’, both of which went to number one in the UK. Other hits include ‘Invaders Must Die’, ‘Omen’ and ‘Voodoo People’. Their seventh studio album, ‘No Tourists’, (the last to feature Flint), scored the band their seventh UK number one.

The leader of the council, Graham Butland, explained that they had been in conversation with the co-manager of The Prodigy, who’d said that there would be no objection to a statue provided that it was “tasteful”, and would not be a “literal representation” of Keith.

A post mortem determined that Keith had died by hanging, and a toxicology analysis confirmed that the singer had cocaine, alcohol and codeine in his system. Senior coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said. “I’ve considered suicide,”

“To record that, I would have to have found that, on the balance of probabilities, Mr Flint formed the idea and took a deliberate action knowing it would result in his death. Having regard to all the circumstances I don’t find that there’s enough evidence for that.”