The mum of Josh Kershaw has slammed social media sleuths who commented on videos from her son's funeral
A grieving mum has hit out after false claims that her son was involved in the A66 crash which killed two police officers and five young men in Middlesbrough.
Pc Matthew Blades, 37, and Pc Tom Clough, 38, of Cleveland Police both died when a car on the wrong side on a dual carriageway crashed into their vehicle on the A66 last weekend.
A Volkswagen Passat being pursued by police hit their response vehicle seconds after the chase was terminated in Teesside on Saturday morning (22 August).
In the collision, five young men also died. They have been identified as Cole Worthy, 17, Theo Rae, 17, Makai Saddington, 18, and 23-year-olds Michael Robert Cahill and Jakub Matusiak.
However the mum of Joshua Kershaw, who tragically died after visiting Thailand on holiday, has been forced to speak out in an emotional post on social media.
In it, she claimed that online users had been commenting under videos of her late son's funeral, held earlier this year, wrongly claiming that he was involved in the A66 crash, despite passing away months before.
Joshua, 21, from Wakefield, had flown out to Bangkok, Thailand, for a week’s holiday on 12 January and had checked into Maxim’s Inn hotel when he stopped replying to phone calls from his mum Jenny.
He had told his family that he was travelling to the southern tourist city of Pattaya for the trip.
But it was revealed Joshua never made it out...
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