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VIDEO: Adam Jones tragedy - Help find coward who killed my son

'The driver is a coward for running away instead of calling for help – he left him to die.'  - The words of Adam Jones's heartbroken mother Mandy as she made a fresh appeal for the public's help to catch her teenage son's killer.

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It's been three months since the driver of a car which hit 15-year-old Adam left him to die by the side of the road in West Bromwich.

Keen Baggies fan Adam, from Wednesbury, had been with friends when a blue Volkswagen Bora hit the bike he was riding as he crossed the junction of Beacon View Road and Walsall Road just after 7.30pm on March 26. Adam was flung through the windscreen of the car which travelled a short distance before coming to a stop.

The driver then got out and fled the scene.

The damaged car

Despite police appeals for information to find the person who was behind the wheel, including a campaign backed by Albion goalkeeper Ben Foster, the driver has never been found.

Adam's distraught mother Mandy has now appeared on BBC's Crimewatch in a bid to jog people's memories of the night he died alongside a reconstruction of Adam's final moments before the tragic crash.

"Adam was just a normal teenager growing up. He'd got everything going for him. He was into horses a lot.

"He had secured himself an apprenticeship at Sandwell Valley Riding School.

Fatally injured: Adam Jones

"He was due to start a college course in September to do something he really loved. He's not here to do it," she said. Reliving the night Adam died, she said he had been out with friends before returning home briefly and going out again.

"We just had a knock on the door from his friends saying Adam had been knocked off his pushbike.

"I went straight there. I thought Adam would be sat on the grass bank telling me he was hurting somewhere.

"When I got there I was looking, I could just see flashing lights and I thought where is Adam?

"I couldn't see him on the grass verge.

"Then I saw his pushbike and the ambulance and I realised something was serious, he hasn't just been knocked off his bike. Then I saw the state of the car. He was my only boy, he was only son. The driver is a coward for running away instead of calling for help because he ran away and left him – he left him to die," she said fighting back tears.

"Since March 26, my life has been turned upside down.

"I've got two daughters, they are in pieces to be perfectly honest.

"It feels like my whole life's stopped because of not having Adam," she added.

Inspector Paul Bennett, head of the West Midlands Police Collision Investigation Unit, has appealed for anyone who knows who the driver was to contact police.

Police said following the Crimewatch appeal they have received calls from the public but have not yet received any 'significant' information, however they remain confident of finding the driver.

Anyone with information can police by calling 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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