A proud mum burst into tears after seeing her son's selfless gesture on Ring doorbell footage. She was alerted to the film by friends.
As reported by the Liverpool Echo, Nathan Hornby was out trick-or-treating with his friend Daniel on Halloween when he came across an empty bowl of sweets outside a house in Page Moss, Merseyside. Nathan, 13, was captured on Jodie Laithy's Ring doorbell camera picking up the bowl and saying "somebody has taken them [the sweets]" before putting it back down.
Nathan, from Knotty Ash, can then be seen immediately opening up his plastic bag full of sweets and putting some of his own into the empty bowl, with his friend quickly following suit. The boys then turn to the Ring doorbell camera and wave before saying "happy Halloween".
Jodie, who lives at the address, shared the video on Facebook in hope of the boys' parents seeing the video and knowing "how amazing their children are". Nathan's mum Natasha Holloway, 33, has now come forward after seeing the video. Natasha said she had no idea about her son's kind gesture until 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.”
She added: "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 out for tea as a treat for his kind gesture.
