She added: “Just think if it was your brother, sister, dad, mum. Can you imagine the devastation if you lost somebody through that?”

Mrs Willgoose described her son as “the life and soul of the party” and “a joy to be around”.

“He loved football, football was his life. He was going to be an actor at one point, I think he would have been good at it.”

She said Harvey’s final words to her before he left the family home to go to school on Monday were “I love you”.

“I have got his grubby t-shirt on so I can smell him,” she added.

“I don’t want to go to sleep because I don’t want to wake up and have to relive it all and remember it.”