Worcester mum’s wait for news of son injured in Liverpool

A mother has told how she pieced together news of her son’s injuries in the Liverpool parade car crash, thanks to help from strangers on the scene.

Jacob Randall from St John’s in Worcester was hit by the vehicle involved, injuring his arm, his mother Mandy said.

She received a call in the evening from a stranger using her son’s phone to say he had been hit and was “down for a couple of minutes” before he jumped back up.

“I just didn’t understand what he was saying,” she said.

“I thought he was saying there’s somebody that’s been hit and I said ‘yes, I’ve been watching it’ and he said ‘no, your son got hit, but he won’t go in the ambulance and he wants to catch a train home’.

She said her son, who had been drinking all day, told her was he fine and he did not need any medical assistance.

The person who called to alert her, a man from Kent, stayed with him until about 22:30 as she liaised with the Worcestershire Liverpool supporters’ group who contacted people to help find him before his mobile phone ran out of battery.

They eventually located him him about midnight after searching for an hour or so, she said.

“They had no description of him, they must’ve been saying are you Mandy Thomasson’s son as that’s the only thing they would know… they’re real heroes, they really are,” she added.

She said he was due home on Tuesday lunchtime and would go straight to A&E because his arm was now hurting.

“I’m so relieved now that people came out to try to help because you wouldn’t get that from many people.

“I can’t thank them enough,” she said, adding they went “above and beyond”.

She said she would give her son a big hug when she saw him “and tell him he’s not going anywhere again.”