A distraught mother told about her pain after she tried to create her teenage son from his lies to find him brain dead after a fatal overdose of illegally sold medicines for recipe.
Tanya Hilling, 43, from Ipswich, has spoken to warn other families after she found her son Kieron unconscious last Friday (February 28) after a cocktail from Xanax and Morphine.
“I tried to wake him up because he had slept for hours,” Tanya said. “I bumped him and turned his head and he bleed out of the mouth and nose and his lips were blue.
“I just screamed and called for the ambulance and they said I should try to get him on the floor, but he was tough. I managed to get him down, but the paramedics ran up the stairs.
“When they brought him to the hospital, they found a small heartbeat, but they told me that when he woke up, there would be serious brain damage and that everything failed and I should tell everyone that he loved him to say goodbye.
“It was terrible, but the only thing I can say is to another family whose child gets involved in drugs – keep fighting and don't give up, you're not alone.”
Kieron's family believes that he has acquired the medicine of friends after he had fallen with the wrong crowd.
The youngest of four brothers, Kieron, who went to Costeston High School, Ipswich, was a gifted football player, who had trials for Norwich City and Chelsea FC, but started to go of the rails of about 13 or 14 and gradually lost interest in sport.
Kieron Hilling died after a fatal overdose of illegally sold painkillers
Kiron's mother Tanya, 43, could not wake her son after he was an overdose on the drugs
Kieron was a gifted football player and had grown tests for Norwich City and Chelsea FC
His older brother Connor Hickman, 23, a writer, said things started to get out of hand two or three months ago when 'friends' of Kieron started to use powerful regulations such as Xanax and Morphine, obtained illegally.
“He just started to withdraw himself and regardless of who sat down and spoke with him, including his whole family, it didn't make much difference,” Connor said.
“His brothers, mum and dad sat with him. I told him about a friend I had lost through drugs, but unfortunately we just couldn't reach him.
“The only people he seemed to feel were his friends who were the bad influence, so he followed them.
“He always wanted to fit in and would bend for pear group pressure, and if you have a bad crowd, it can go wrong so quickly.”
His brother said that Keiron's friends started using powerful drugs for recipes such as Xanax and Morphine, illegally obtained
His family spoke with him about the dangers of the drugs, but could not endure him
Connor added: 'It is so difficult to get support in Ipswich, and I am sure it is the same in other parts of the country.
'The whole family has been destroyed by this. We want to remember the brutal little boy who was full of love and happiness, not the Kieron we lost of drugs. '
The family has set up a GoFundMe page on behalf of Kieron's father Shaun, a 41-year-old signfitter, to help with funeral costs 'and to give him the farewell that he really deserves'.
Connor added: “We just want the awareness of people of these drugs and the damage they can increase.”
