One dreadful night, 15 years before, sealed my son’s fate

You may have already read what happened to my 13-year-old son Olly Stephens. On 3 January 2021, he left our family home in Reading, Berkshire, and wandered to a nearby field, just three minutes’ walk

‘Is this your random fact of the day?’ I laughed, his excitement making me smile. ‘I’ve been reading about the hottest chilli pepper in the world,’ he grinned, then proceeded to tell me all about it.

Ebony’s mum had turned things around and was back in her life. But then a brutal act robbed them of everything…

Sitting in a restaurant in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in September 2022, Lisa, then 50, and I looked like old friends having a catch-up. In fact, we’d met for the first time that day, two grieving mums disc

As I sat on the sofa with Dad, eating sweets, my eyes drifted to the walls. ‘Why do you have so many pictures of the devil?’ I asked. ‘I think it’s cool,’ Dad shrugged. It was 2007 and even at six, I