A mum burst into tears after seeing her son's selfless gesture captured on a Ring doorbell camera.
When Nathan Hornby was out trick-or-treating for Halloween on Monday with his friend Daniel, he found a bowl of empty sweets outside a house in Page Moss.
Nathan, 13, was filmed on Jodie Laithy's Ring doorbell camera retrieving the bowl, saying "somebody has taken them [the sweets]" before placing it back down, reports the Liverpool Echo.
The teenager from Knotty Ash was then seen opening up his plastic New Look bag rammed with sweets and putting some of his own into the empty bowl, as his friend followed suit.
Then the boys turned to the Ring doorbell camera and waved, before saying: "Happy Halloween".
Jodie lives at the address and shared the video on Facebook, hoping the boys' parents would see the clip and know "how amazing their children are".
Natasha Holloway, 33, is Nathan's mum, who hs now come forward after seeing the video shared by the Echo.
She said she had no idea about her son's kind gesture until the majority of her friends tagged her in the story on Facebook.
Natasha said: "I left for work [on Tuesday] morning and everything was normal.
"By the time I got to work, which is a 20 minute drive, I don't know how many different comments, tags and messages I had - it blew up my phone."
As she watched the footage for the first time, Natasha said: "I cried. The overwhelming pride that I've got that I've raised a son that would do that off his own back."He was just out with his friends around the L14 area and then this has happened.
"There's a lot of bad press so when a nice story comes out it makes a massive difference - and to know it's my son that did that makes me feel good."
Natasha said she has since received a phone call from her son's head of year, Miss Jackson, from Cardinal Heenan High School who congratulated the boys and asked if they could share the footage on their Instagram page.
Natasha plans to take Nathan our for tea as a treat for his kind gesture.
