Days after her 12-year-old son was killed by a BMW driver travelling at 70mph, Louise Slater sat outside the suspect's home, gathering the courage to plead with his family to hand him in.
She had been given the name and address of Aleksanders Dolars after her son Keaton was killed in a hit-and-run in Coventry.
Distraught, she was preparing to knock on the door when a neighbour approached and asked what she was doing.
When she explained, he told her the family, from Latvia, had packed up and left a day or two earlier.
Keaton's suspected killer had fled just hours after leaving him dying in the road.
What followed was a relentless two-year fight by his parents to track him down and bring him back to England to face justice.
He was finally jailed on Friday, for nine years and four months.
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Dolars' name had been already circulating locally before police identified him as their main suspect on 18 June 2024, four days after Keaton was killed.
A family waiting at nearby traffic lights said their seven-seater "shook violently" as a BMW driver sped past at what appeared to be far more than the 30mph limit. Moments later, they saw something fly into the air behind them.
