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The mum of a 12-year-old boy who died after he copied a TikTok trend issued a heartbreaking warning to families following an inquest into the tragedy. ‌

Oliver Gorman was found unresponsive in his bedroom at his family's home in Hyde, Tameside, in May this year. He had returned home with his family from a holiday less than an hour before his death. ‌

Mum Clare Gillespie, 42, began CPR and after emergency services arrived, Oliver was airlifted to Tameside General Hospital. Despite extensive resuscitation attempts, he could not be saved. ‌

It was thought Oliver was copying a TikTok trend known as 'chroming' or 'huffing', in which people film themselves getting 'high' from the fumes of products such as deodorants.

A post-mortem found he died as a result of the

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