A grieving mother has released a heartbreaking picture of her son in the agonising final hours as he was dying in hospital after being stabbed.
Devastated Zoey McGill, 34, sat with her 18-year-old son Jack Woodley before medics tried a second operation to save the young man's life.
Jack, who grew up in Newton Aycliffe, Durham, was seriously injured with knife wounds during an altercation as he left a fun fair at Houghton Feast, Sunderland, last Saturday evening as he walked his girlfriend to get her bus.
Grieving mother Zoey McGill released this heartbreaking picture of her son Jack Woodley, 18, as he lay dying in hospital after being stabbed while leaving a fun fair in Sunderland
He was found with a stab wound near the Britannia Inn, in Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring but died the following day.
Zoey, who works as a supervisor at pharmaceutical company GSK in Barnard Castle, said: 'It is awful. I am no longer living.
'I left myself at that bedside, and I'll have this for the rest of my life.
'I will never be able to find comfort in the pain that he went through.'
Jack, who has two brothers, Jayden 13, and Jenson, 6, had left the family home to live in the Felling area of Gateshead.
Jack had been offered a job at Amazon in Gateshead and wanted to live in a house with his girlfriend, but was told by social services he would have to wait until one was available
But he told his mother he had to vacate after being burgled and attacked in his own home around a week before he died.
Jack had been offered a job at Amazon in Gateshead and wanted to live in a house with his girlfriend, but was told by social services he would have to wait until one was available.
Until then, he was told he would have to stay in the
