A dad is trying to find a stranger who helped his son while he was having a panic attack.
Shaun Ainscough, a former rugby player from Wigan, was on a packed train home from a match on Sunday 5 July, when his 11-year-old son started screaming, taking his clothes off and begging to get off the hot carriage.
But a woman, whose name is still unknown, jumped to the rescue and spent the entire journey reassuring the boy with words and by using a handheld fan.
Ainscough, 35, has since put out a social media post asking for the woman to come forward which has been seen by thousands of people, external, with the pair desperate to thank her in person and “give her some flowers”.
The pair had caught the 21:15 BST train from Liverpool Lime Street station after watching Wigan Warriors beat St Helens at the Hill Dickinson stadium.
“All the fans were singing and we were having a laugh, although because we were all stood up we literally couldn’t sit anywhere,” said Ainscough, who played for Wigan between 2009-10.
“But then my son just started crying, shaking, taking his shirt off and screaming to get off the train.”
