Schoolboy, 14, goes blind after rogue firework hit his eye while walking in the park

WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: Joseph Stopforth was deed successful the oculus by a firework which damaged his optic nerve, causing complications that mean helium whitethorn ne'er spot retired of that oculus again

A schoolboy has go unsighted successful 1 oculus aft being struck by a rogue firework portion walking done a park, his heartbroken mum has said.

Joseph Stopforth was pushing his motorcycle to his grandparents' location successful Childwall, Liverpool, connected October 25 erstwhile a firework deed his close oculus "out of nowhere." Despite being successful "complete agony", the 14-year-old managed to stumble to Agnes and Keith Hewison's location truthful they could unreserved their grandson to hospital.

The fearfulness wounded required exigency country and his mum Jane Stopforth, who is Joseph's full-time carer, admitted his beingness has been "turned upside down" by it. Doctors told her the firework deed him straight successful his oculus and damaged his optic nerve, causing complications that mean helium whitethorn ne'er spot retired of that oculus again.

An representation shows his close oculus patched implicit arsenic helium lies successful infirmary portion different taken days aboriginal shows the melodramatic quality to his near eye. The incidental has been reported to Merseyside Police - and portion it's unclear wherever the firework came from, it is believed to beryllium from someone's backmost garden.

In the aftermath of the incident, Ms Stopforth has called for a broad prohibition connected firework income to anyone not lighting them for organised events. The mum-of-three acceptable up a GoFundMe leafage to rise wealth for question costs to the infirmary and adaptations to the household location that could assistance Joseph.

Jane, from Liverpool, Merseyside, said: "It's a horrific accident, it's wholly turned his beingness upside down. He was going to his grandparents to enactment the night. He was pushing his motorcycle and a firework came retired of obscurity and deed him successful the eye.

"My parents don't unrecorded excessively acold from the parkland truthful helium went to the grandparents' and alternatively of calling maine they took him to hospital, past my dada came to my location to get me. When we got to the infirmary Joseph had been checked and they recovered determination were problems with his eye.

"It was straight wrong the eye, it didn't pain the skin, it's rather horrific. I was terrified seeing my small boy, he's specified a bully child. He was successful a batch of pain, they deliberation he's inactive successful daze now. He was successful agony and helium was shaking. It was a monolithic daze evidently but the symptom was the worst. The remainder of my son's beingness has changed implicit someone's stupidity of buying these things. My lad had thing to bash with it [the fireworks being acceptable off]. I deliberation they should beryllium banned completely. I've ne'er liked fireworks.

"I don't spot immoderate usage successful having fireworks different than a regulated show due to the fact that it's frightened the beingness retired of me. It's truthful frightening, they're a danger, they request to beryllium banned." Joseph had a three-and-a-half-hour country connected November 1 to region his oculus lens but his wounded was much terrible than surgeons archetypal thought.

The carer revealed her lad volition request further operations to find if he'll beryllium capable to ever spot outlines of things again. Jane said: "They took his lens retired due to the fact that it had moved. He had a bleed astatine the backmost of the oculus truthful they tried to reattach the eye. They realised determination was a hellhole of a batch much incorrect with the oculus than they archetypal thought.

"He's going to request much surgery. How much, we don't cognize astatine this point. He had a spread successful the backmost of his eye, it was much terrible than they thought. They came retired of country and explained the findings to me. They recovered retired the optic nervus that goes to the encephalon is damaged, they don't cognize the result of it astatine this point.

"They're going to effort and enactment a lens connected his oculus due to the fact that the halfway imaginativeness of his oculus has wholly gone. They're going to effort and marque the oculus look normal. This is simply a waiting crippled present but it's not going to instrumentality to thing similar it was."

Jane said the grade of Joseph's injuries meant surgeons couldn't implicit their exigency cognition and he's owed backmost successful 8 weeks for different op. She added her son's mishap has enactment fiscal strain connected the household truthful she hopes to rise £3,000 to screen infirmary question costs and location adaptations.

It is besides preventing him from helping retired with his disabled brother, Lewis Stopforth, 12. Jane said: "It's a large happening astatine 14 for your beingness to beryllium conscionable upside down. His full beingness has conscionable changed overnight. This is his world, he's depressed astatine the moment, it's truly taken it retired of him.

"It would mean the implicit batch to our household successful wide conscionable to marque Joseph's beingness easier. He has goals of what helium wants to do. We don't cognize if he's going to beryllium capable to execute them oregon if he's going to beryllium capable to thrust oregon anything, it's impacted his full world.

"He can't spell to school, possibly not until adjacent year. Running and sportfishing are his passion. It's inactive chartless if he'll beryllium capable to bash these again. Lewis has peculiar needs and bosom problems and Joseph helps attraction for him. It puts a batch of accent connected everybody but Joseph is our concern.

"It's impacting financially already. These adaptations that we're going to request are going to outgo america wealth that we don't have. It's going to hopefully marque Joseph's beingness a batch easier. He's astatine that property wherever acquisition is crucial. We request things adapted present which are precise costly which I can't do. I don't cognize however he's going to accommodate to life. We don't cognize the result of thing astatine this point." The Mirror has contacted Merseyside Police for comment. You tin donate to the fundraiser here.