Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
‘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. THE Duchess of Cambridge turned blue in freezing London yesterday.
Pregnant Kate wore a Jenny Packham dress and coat with matching shoes while launching a worldwide campaign to boost nursing.
She joked William was “in denial” about their third child due in April as she chatted to parents of sick children at St Thomas’ Hospital. Jamie Parsons, 33, said: “I said, ‘Best of luck with the third one’. She said, ‘William’s in denial’.”
Earlier, Kate, 36, hugged her midwife, Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-bent, who helped deliver
George and Charlotte, after being named patron of the Royal
College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.