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Mum who cried herself to sleep when son died woke to learn of second son's death

A grieving mum who cried herself to sleep after her son died woke up just a few hours later to find out that her second son had died.

Rosemary Davies was left devastated after her son Scott Belis died of a suspected overdose on May 29.

Mrs Davies said Scott was feeling down the night before he died and she had begged him to stay overnight at her home.

She said he had wanted to go into rehab but there had not been a place for him.

Scott went home to his flat round the corner from her home in Bradley, Wrexham , and the following day Mrs Davies found out he had died.

The family are holding a fundraiser to raise funds for a double funeral. (Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)

Mrs Davies said that her older son Robert Jones had rushed to console her on the death of his younger brother, reports North Wales Live.

They stayed up talking into the early hours of the morning, and then Mrs Davies went upstairs.

But after finally falling asleep she was woken by the sound of Robert's girlfriend Fallon's screams coming from downstairs.

She said: "We talked until about 2am, then I went to bed. At 5am I was crying in my bed, trying not to wake anybody up as Bobby and Fallon were sleeping downstairs on the sofa bed.

"But at 7.55am I heard Fallon screaming and I came downstairs to find thick blood had come out of Bobby's mouth, and he was cold to the touch."

Stepdad Paul and paramedics tried to save Robert, but they couldn't.

Mrs Davies said: "I found myself screaming in the street outside. I couldn't believe I'd now lost my other boy."

She described Scott, who had struggled with alcohol, as "kind and shy", and that he and Bobby had been "little rogues together".

Rosemary holds the clothes belonging to her sons that she can still smell them on (Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)

She added: "I held their hands to do everything they needed to do, and most of the time they had me wrapped around their little fingers.

"Scott lived around the corner would come and see me every day, and even though Bobby was settled with Fallon and was in a good place mentally, he still came round to see me for his Sunday lunch and every Thursday.

"My other three, Michael, Dean and Donna, got on with their lives, but my apron strings had never really been cut from Scott and Bobby. We were inseparable."

A funeral for Scott and Bobby was held at Holy Trinity Church in Wrexham. Their coffins were carried into the church by grief-stricken family members, including her 18-year-old grandson Liam.

The family are holding a fundraiser to raise funds for a double funeral. (Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)

Mrs Davies, who is in her 60s added: "I don't know how they did it, because after they carried one coffin down they had to go back up the aisle to carry the other one. It was heartbreaking."

She said she had "felt like jumping into the grave with them", but had to go on for Scott's little boy, six-year-old Leo.

"My heart is broken but he is going to fill it.

"I'm his legal guardian, but Scott absolutely adored him, as did his uncle Bobby.

"Leo has lost both his daddy and a very close uncle. He loved him so much and would always take him to the park for a game of football."

She says she now has the added worry of how to pay for her sons' funeral, the bill for which runs to around £6,000.

She said: "We just don't have that kind of money, and we just don't know how we are going to pay for it. It's another worry on top of everything."

Mrs Davies says she doesn't know how she is going to pay for the funeral, the bill for which is around £6,000

A fundraising night at the Gwersyllt Working Men's Club is to be held on July 20 at 7.30pm, and a Just Giving page has also been launched.

An inquest into her sons' deaths on May 29 and May 30 is yet to take place.

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