A 14-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed to death at a house in Miles Platting was 'trying to defend his mum', the Manchester Evening News understands.
"I just thought, 'he's gone'": Mum recalls horror of night son died in Arena attack
21.05.2022 - 23:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The mother of one of the 22 people who died in the Manchester Arena bombing believes she knew her son had passed away long before the police officially informed her. June Tron lost her son Philip on that fateful night five years ago.
Philip was killed alongside his partner's daughter, Courtney Boyle, while the pair were collecting her little sister from the Ariana Grande concert. Now, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attack, June has relieved the worst hours of her life with the Newcastle Chronicle. She says she is still haunted by the screams of other families finding out their loved one has been murdered.
"It's just like a nightmare," the 66-year-old, from Harlow Green in Gateshead, reflected. "It's like you are standing on the outside looking in and thinking 'this can't be real'.
"It's not like losing someone, it's like having them ripped away. Someone has deliberately gone and taken their lives."
Philip would do anything for anyone, his mum said, describing her son as funny, generous, and genuine. So when his partner's daughter needed a lift to the concert in Manchester, on May 22, 2017, Philip asked his brother Michael, if he could borrow his car.Michael, now 32, agreed on the condition that Philip took his mum for the trip as she had been recovering from a knee operation, June explained. It was agreed that Philip, 32, would drive his girlfriend, Deborah Hutchinson, her 14-year-old daughter Nicole and June down to Manchester and that they would pick Deborah's older daughter, 19-year-old Courtney Boyle who was studying in Leeds, on the way.
After dropping Nicole at the Arena, June, Philip, Deborah and Courtney spent some time together in Manchester before going to Nandos for tea. And June remembers the
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