THE HORRORS of knife crime were made abundantly clear to pupils at one Grimsby school last week by a mother who was left devastated by the death of her son.
Ben Tilling was just 17-years-old when he was killed as a result of a knife crime.
For his mother it was devastating and something she has been forced to come to terms with over the years.
Whatever the circumstances of a child's death, the impact that loss will have on a parent must be just dreadful – a pain which must never go away.
Ben's mum appears to have coped by using her terrible experience to help prevent her situation being repeated.
That is a brave move, but a really positive reaction to an extremely negative part of her life – and if just one life can be saved as a result of what she is doing, then it is a job very well done.
People simply must realise what impact their actions can have on both their victims and the relatives who are left – if they did, there may be less grief in the world!
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