‘We were down to seconds…’ says mother of boy, 4, after he put cable tie around his neck

Riley's mother wants to make other parents aware of the dangers of leaving cable ties in reach of children.

A mother is warning other parents of the dangers posed by cable ties after her four-year-old son accidentally tied one around his neck and ended up hospitalised after the family struggled to cut him free.

Denise Kelly, from Offaly, said her “heart literally stopped beating” when she found her son Riley lying in his bed with a cable tie around his neck.