Coventry mother feels ‘helpless’ after son’s hit-and-run death

Ms Slater, who was visibly shaking as she spoke, told the press conference she had initially declined to speak as it would never bring her son back, but “hearing that whoever did this will not hand themselves in, has left us all feeling helpless”.

“We need to get justice for our Keaton,” she said. “We just want everyone to find who took our son, Keanu and Kai’s little brother, away from us.

“Please, if anyone knows anything or where they are, please come forward so we can have justice for our family.”

Wiping away her tears, Ms Slater, 51, said: “We were a family of five but now we are four.

“Our lives will never be the same again and Keaton’s brothers, dad, nana and granddad and myself are devastated.”

Police said they believed Mr Aleksanders, who was born in Latvia but was a UK resident, was living in the Coventry area at the time of the crash.

Ports and airports have been alerted and the West Midlands force said it was liaising with other international agencies.