A devastated mum has spoken out about how she fears her teenage son may die after becoming subject to a series brutal attacks by a group of bullying teens.
The mum, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, says the first attack on her son took place on Bonfire Night last year, report Lancs Live.
A group of about five youths punched her son and grabbed at a chain containing his grandma’s ashes, she said.
Thankfully, the cherished ashes could be salvaged as they fell into his jumper. The chain was retrieved from kind staff at a local artisan shop in the park later.
The horrified mum then recalled another incident which happened on Good Friday, on the street behind Chorley Library.
She told LancsLive that one of the attackers headbutted her son while others punched and kicked him.
The incident left him with a golf ball sized lump on his head and forcing him to crouch down on the floor.
The footage - which has been blurred out due to its violent nature - shows a brutal attack on the boy including being sucker punched and savage kicks to the head while he lay on the floor.
His distressed mum says the same group have also been undeterred when he is with his parents, verbally abusing her and his family as well.
She says she has reported the matter to police but fears for her son with the attacks continuing as time goes on.
She told LancsLive: “There was a lump on his head after the second attack where one of them had headbutted him - that was like a golf ball.
"Whoever spots him will have a go, and they have even done so when he is with us.
"We can be walking him to work and they just blatantly come over to us and they don’t care.
“They shout abuse, he’s had phone calls abusing him and even when an adult’s taken the phone off him, they carry on saying, we’re going to hurt him.
"Police say as far as malicious phone calls are concerned, he has to delete his social media and not answer text messages from them and just ignore them."
The mum says her son is doing okay but "he just can't go anywhere".
She said: "At the minute he can’t have a normal life and go out with his friends.
"He said 'I will never get the career I want because I will either be dead or in prison. I feel like the last few years of my childhood are being taken away from me because I can’t go into town or into McDonalds like my friends do'. He’s just constantly dodging them.
“We have to stop what we’re doing. With him being 14, he doesn’t want to be coming home at 6pm, he is generally in by 8pm but he just doesn’t want to be on lockdown because of these bullies. It’s not only hindering him, it’s impacting everyone else."
In response to the attack, a Home Office spokesperson said: "The Home Office condemns youth violence and we are putting more police on our streets to keep our communities safe.
"Through the Beating Crime Plan the police will have the powers and tools they need to stop crimes happening in the first place and keep serious offenders behind bars for longer.
“More than 13,500 additional officers, including hundreds in Lancashire, have already been recruited across England and Wales and we are on track to deliver our commitment to recruit 20,000.”
