'I'm sorry... I Love you' Brave West Lothian mum opens up on last words of 13-year-old son before he took his own life

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A devastated mum who lost her 13-year-old son to suicide has bravely opened up to raise awareness so no other family has to endure the same heartache.In January 2022, Jen Gordon’s son Devin took his own life and she is still coming to terms with the fact she will never know why her eldest decided to end his life.As Jen frantically searched for her son, calling, texting, willing him to respond to her, Devin finally sent a short message.It said: “I’m sorry, I love you”.She says she has been left replaying the day over and over in her head, trying to understand if there was anything she could have done differently to change things.There are many things that Jen wrestles with.

Did she shout at her son telling him to hurry up and get ready for school? Was there an indication, a tiny something she missed that could have changed the course of her life?One thing she says she’s struggled with a lot is the fact that after he walked out of his school in Bathgate, the Find My Friends app indicated he paced around a lot.

What if someone stopped him — could things have been different?Research has shown that 30 per cent of all 10 to 19-year-olds that die by suicide, do so without any indication of distress.Jen has spoken out as part of FC United to Prevent Suicide’s new campaignThe mum-of-three said: “He was 13 and he should have been in school.

If anybody had stopped him and asked him...“A lot of the research I’ve done shows that if anyone had said, ‘are you alright?’ that it could have made a difference.“I was phoning and phoning him, and I would imagine he was distressed.“That for me is the thing, trying to give people the confidence that you are not going to make the situation worse.