"As a mum, I am still stuck on the day my son face-timed me with a snapped jaw."

These are the words of the mother of Sheldon Lewcock, who died last year after his e-bike was hit by a van.

Sheldon's mother Angela Lewcock has shared the heartbreaking last call she shared with her 19-year-old son as he lay fatally injured.

She spoke out following a five-month battle to find out exactly what happened in the run-up to her son's death.

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Angela says the day of the incident still haunts her and says Sheldon called and face-timed her immediately after the crash.

She said: "My son's face was unrecognisable.

"I was just screaming asking him where he was. I couldn't find him and I needed to get to him.

"As a mother, seeing him like that and to sit with him for four days after, watching him die. Watching him try and fight. He couldn't fight. He did try.

"My poor beautiful boy didn't deserve any of this.

"As a family, we haven't been able to move on.

"I just wanted to be seen. I just want the police to do their job.

"I just want quiet, I just want peace."

She is now demanding answers.

She said: "Nothing is getting done. It's been just over five months into my son's death and it is all going quiet."

"I want answers. We've been kept in limbo."

On August 4, 2022, 19-year-old Sheldon Lewcock was riding an electric bike on Pierce's Hill when he was involved in a crash with a van.

He was taken to hospital and died on August 9, 2022. An inquest has been opened but did not put forward a cause of death. The inquest was adjourned for police to investigate further.

Soon after these events, Thames Valley Police launched a murder investigation and three men and a boy were arrested following the incident.

However, days later the charges were dropped.

The murder investigation ended on August 17, 2022, and the case was handed over to the Joint Operations Roads Policing Serious Collision Investigation Unit.

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Last Sunday (January 15) more than a hundred of Sheldon's friends and family members protested in Forbury Gardens before making their way to the police station in a bid to be heard.

Months on and with no further developments to the investigation, Angela says she now struggles to remain in Reading.

"We don't want to live here anymore. As a family we sit here and are traumatized by the house.

"We are stuck in a time warp and it is becoming harder and harder."

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Sheldon's family say they have cooperated with the investigation - but are still no closer to knowing exactly what happened to him.

Angela now wants police to reopen the murder investigation and said: 'I am going to do everything I can to get justice'.

"I don't want this happening to another parent. I do not wish this on any parent. 

"My son didn't have a bad bone in his body."

Angela has since started 'Shelly's World' a Facebook page in memory of Sheldon and in support of justice for his death. 

"My boy was beautiful. He was lovely," Angela said.

"We were just a normal family. We miss him every day."

"We have to wake up not knowing he is here. Sometimes I don't even want to get out of bed.

"It's killed our family. We don't want to be in this house. There are too many memories.

"Nobody can go into Sheldon's bedroom, it's traumatizing.

"He will always be in there."

The Reading Chronicle has reached out to Thames Valley Police for comment and an update on the investigation.