Ellen Roome, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, found her son Jools Sweeney, 14, unconscious in his room in April 2022, and believes he may have taken part in an online challenge that went wrong.

A mum desperately searching for answers after her son’s death has hit out at social media firms refusing her access to his accounts, saying they ‘don’t give a damn’. Ellen Roome, 48 ...

Ellen Roome, 48, has been left not knowing why her son Jools Sweeney died for years, after she found his body in his room on 13 April 2022, having spoken with him on the phone earlier in the evening ...

AS paramedics frantically worked on 14-year-old Jools Sweeney’s lifeless body, his mum clung to him thinking: “I’m not l­etting my baby go.” But in the end, Ellen Roome could only watch ...