Gateshead family urging people to wear blue in memory of Manchester Arena bombing victim Philip Tron
Today marks the 8th anniversary of the Arena attack
The Gateshead family of Philip Tron are urging people to wear blue in his memory on the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing.
Today (Thursday) marks exactly eight years when twenty-two people went to a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, but never made it home.
June Tron, Philip's mum, tells us about her son. She says how he was kind, funny and “would give you his last if he had it”.
She was also there at the time in Manchester and recalls the evening. June said: "I was sitting in the car when the blast went. The car just felt like it lifted.
"You’re in limbo and then you see things. It was like part dark and part light. I always remember seeing these guys running. Then, seeing parents with children rushing with them and I'm thinking, what’s going on. "
June tells us how it is important that the victims are never forgotten.
She said: "We don't want it to happen again. I don’t know whether it will or not. I pray it doesn't because I'd hate to be the person who has to go through what we've been through.
"We don't want my kids to be forgotten. People say you've just got to get on with your life. Everybody's got to get on with their life, but it doesn't mean to say that the ones who we’ve lost, and in such a horrific way that they were taken, that they shouldn’t be forgotten."