‘Police radio revealed my son’s death’
A MUM talking to police about her son vanishing learnt of his death by overhearing messages on an officer’s two-way radio.
Lisa Edwards was being asked about a 999 call made that night by David Edwards-Gill, 16, when an alert revealed someone had been hit by a train.
Mrs Edwards, in her 40s, told an inquest: “I said [to police] it couldn’t be him... It was then they confirmed his identity over the radio.”
College student David, of Wigan, Gtr Manchester, was due to attend a party but went missing after his mum dropped him off.
He told the 999 operator shortly after: “I feel sh*t... I am going to get run over by a train.” David, who died in 2016, had battled mental illness. The inquest, in Bolton, continues.