It was 02:40 on 7 May when Anna was jolted from her sleep by her teenage son Vlad screaming, “Mum! Call doctors!”
He then shouted the name of a poison and the time he drank it.
“I don’t know what the substance is,” Anna remembers, “but he’s changed his mind, and he came to me for help, to save him.”
Vlad’s father, Graham Caisley, describes how their son must have staggered upstairs, before collapsing on his bedroom floor.
“His hands were all clenched up and he was shaking,” Graham says. “It was just a state of panic.”
“It was violent, it was sudden,” his mother adds, as she describes her son suffering multiple seizures. “Fitting and fighting for life – I can’t even start imagining the terror he went through.”
Minutes later, Graham was on his knees carrying out CPR on his son, guided by paramedics on speakerphone.
“I was just doing what I could to try and save my son’s life,” Graham says, with tears in his eyes. “It was just horrible.”
Police body-worn camera footage reveals the chaos and emotional fallout as emergency responders tried and failed to save Vlad’s life.
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