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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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ALEC WHITAKER & Laura Sharman

Grieving mum who held dying son in arms thought his body was rubbish bag in street

A mother told how she spotted what she thought was a bag of rubbish dumped in the street - only to find it was her teenage son dying in the road following a hit and run crash.

Council worker Paula Allen had gone out looking for Marcus Simmons-Allen, 18, after being alerted about the impact near their family home.

But she ended up being first on the accident scene and cradled the youngster in her arms as he lay fatally injured.

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