he said, don t worry, i ll have my location on, and he knew that i would like to know where he was. and i said, oh, good, 0k. and he did say, love you, mum. love you. a neighbour s doorbell camera captured the last known images of olly. the clues to understanding what happened to him next were found inside a parallel reality. the world of social media. it s this secret world where you can do and say exactly what you want. it was a world that we had no idea existed and that he was being attacked by it. they hunted him, tracked him through social media. it did nothing to protect him. it did nothing to protect him and without it, he d still be here. it was like a sunday afternoon, wasn t it? and it wasjust, you know, we were just all going to go back to work and school the next day. ijust thought he d be out until probably it started to get dark. it was january 2021. around 3.45pm, there was a knock on the door. he was back sooner than i thought, that s what i thought.
one of our sleepovers, we wanted to sneak out. we tried fitting through his downstairs toilet window, but we were both too big to fit through it. well, i have like a lot of memories in this park because me and olly would walk back this way because we just live down there and we d sit on that bench and just, like, chat about whatever and just look at, like, the stars. he was quite unique. he was his own person in a way. 100%. he didn t get influenced by people. yeah, he wasjust him, that sj the best way to describe him. he did what he wanted and it was just funny. i you couldn t have a bad day with him in a way. i olly left our house on sunday afternoon for a walk to meet some friends. an hour and a half later, i was saying goodbye to him