Father’s photo of stabbed teenage son
THE father of a teenager fighting for his life after being stabbed in the street has released this image of his son in a hospital bed.
Colin Hedley said he feared the next time he saw son Ross would be ‘in a morgue’ after the 17-year-old was admitted to intensive care in the early hours of Friday.
Ross was stabbed outside a pub in Redhill, Nottingham, and taken to the city’s Queens Medical Centre, where he remains in a stable condition. In a message posted on Facebook alongside pictures of his son in hospital, Mr Hedley, 55, wrote: ‘I sat in a waiting room for the longest four hours of my life yesterday with his mum. I’ve never been as scared of anything in my life.
‘No parent should ever have to see their teenager like this, no parent should have to worry every time their kid goes out the door. So to all you teenagers that think it’s tough to carry knives thinking you’re gangsters, do you really want to attend your mate’s funeral?
‘Do you really want to spend the next 15yrs in prison for murder – ruining your own life as well as everyone’s involved? This is not a game.’
A 24-year- old has been charged with wounding with intent and possessing a blade. Joseph Lubasi will appear at crown court on June 25.