The mother of a teenage boy who was killed in a car crash while on a camping trip in Snowdonia said that she is “living in a nightmare”.

Crystal Owen, the mother of 17-year-old Harvey, spoke of her appreciation of people’s “kindness” following the news of her son’s death, but said that “nothing will make this nightmare go away”.

Harvey, along with his college friends Wilf Henderson, Jevon Hirst and Hugo Morris, were found dead on Tuesday after their silver Ford fiesta was discovered submerged in a river.

Ms Owen had previously said that she had not known her son was going on a camping trip, and if she had she “wouldn’t have let him due to the weather conditions”. 

Writing on Facebook after the news broke of the teenagers’ deaths, Ms Owen said: “I feel like I’m in a nightmare I wish I could wake up from but I’m not.”

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