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A mum who had cried herself to sleep the night she lost her son was woken up in the morning by news another of her children had died.

Rosemary Davies' son Robert Jones had rushed to console his mum on the death of his younger brother Scott Bellis.

They stayed up talking into the early hours of the morning, and then Mrs Davies went upstairs.

But after finally falling asleep she was woken by the sound of Robert's girlfriend Fallon's screams coming from downstairs.

She rushed down to find 36-year-old Robert, known as Bobby, with blood coming from his mouth, and although both his stepdad Paul and later paramedics tried to save him, they couldn't.

Mrs Davies said: "I found myself screaming in the street outside. I couldn't believe I'd now lost my other boy."

The mum of five said on the night before 29-year-old Scott's death, she could tell he was down and begged him to come and stay with her. He had wanted to go into rehab but there had not been a place for him, she said.

Scott went home to his flat round the corner from her home in Bradley, Wrexham , and the following day Mrs Davies found out he had died.

It is suspected the former factory worker died of an overdose.

She added: "The night of Scott's death turned out to be the eve of Robert's death.

"We talked until about 2am, then I went to bed. At 5am I was crying in my bed, trying not to wake anybody up as Bobby and Fallon were sleeping downstairs on the sofa bed.

"But at 7.55am I heard Fallon screaming and I came downstairs to find thick blood had come out of Bobby's mouth, and he was cold to the touch."

She described Scott, who had struggled with alcohol, as "kind and shy", and that he and Bobby had been "little rogues together".

She added: "I held their hands to do everything they needed to do, and most of the time they had me wrapped around their little fingers.

"Scott lived around the corner would come and see me every day, and even though Bobby was settled with Fallon and was in a good place mentally, he still came round to see me for his Sunday lunch and every Thursday.

"My other three, Michael, Dean and Donna, got on with their lives, but my apron strings had never really been cut from Scott and Bobby. We were inseparable."

(Image: Rosemary Davies)

A funeral for Scott and Bobby was held at Holy Trinity Church in Wrexham. Their coffins were carried into the church by grief-stricken family members, including her 18-year-old grandson Liam.

"I don't know how they did it, because after they carried one coffin down they had to go back up the aisle to carry the other one. It was heartbreaking," Mrs Davies, who is in her 60s, added.

She said she had "felt like jumping into the grave with them", but had to go on for Scott's little boy, six-year-old Leo.

(Image: Rosemary Davies)

"My heart is broken but he is going to fill it.

"I'm his legal guardian, but Scott absolutely adored him, as did his uncle Bobby. Leo has lost both his daddy and a very close uncle. He loved him so much and would always take him to the park for a game of football."

She says she now has the added worry of how to pay for her sons' funeral, the bill for which runs to around £6,000.

"We just don't have that kind of money, and we just don't know how we are going to pay for it. It's another worry on top of everything," she said.

(Image: Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)

A fundraising night at the Gwersyllt Working Men's Club is to be held on July 20 at 7.30pm, and a Just Giving page has also been launched.

An inquest into her sons' deaths on May 29 and May 30 is yet to take place.

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