Harvey’s mother said he had to act fast

A terrified mother watched her son’s phone “go up in smoke” on a train leaving Liverpool Lime Street station. Natasha Weston, 36, was visiting her brother in Widnes on Saturday with her partner and three children. They had spent the day in the city center and were returning to wide on the 8:37pm service from Liverpool Lime Street to Crewe.

Her son Harvey’s phone had not been used all day and was turned off and in her bag. Natasha gave 10-year-old Harvey her mobile phone to play with while they were on the train. The mother said the ECHO: “After five minutes, Harvey turned to me and told me that his phone was getting hot in his hand. I took it off and as I did so it started to smoke. My companion snatched it from my hand and threw it on the floor of the carriage.

“We were inhaling smoke and the phone had melted into the carpet, so we couldn’t pick it up. I just had to get out of there with my babies.”

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Harvey had received the phone in April as a gift and is “very upset and shocked” by what happened on Saturday.