‘People expect you to get over it’

GILLIAN MALLEY produces a picture of a stunning boy. Two piercing blue eyes shine from underneath a thick thatch of dark hair.

More pictures of the two-year-old are shown. Arran blowing out the birthday candles on his second birthday cake. Gillian remembers how she often heard him in bed singing to himself “happy birthday…” followed by ‘whew’ as he pretended to blow out the candles, over and over.

In February, Arran was found hanging from a blind in his brother’s bedroom after a tragic accident.