A 12-year-old schoolboy begged his mother to let him die after he was left ‘cooking’ in a field following a horrendous accident.
Hunter Jory, from Sheffield, had been playing with friends on August 18 when one of the children decided to light a small fire.
This soon escalated into a massive explosion as another child threw a petrol can over the flames.
Poor Hunter was engulfed by the blaze and suffered severe burn injuries.
He managed to reach a friend’s house, where his mother Kim was called. She took Hunter to a nearby doctor’s surgery straight away while waiting for an ambulance.
Recounting her heartbreak, Kim, 38, said: ‘When I got the call saying Hunter was in agony and needed to go to hospital, I assumed he’d been run over. I didn’t think for a minute that he’d been set on fire. I was mortified.
‘One child lit a fire on a field using a flint of some sort. Another thought it would be a good idea to throw a can of fuel on it.’
Hunter had been so close to the blaze he caught alight. The boy late recalled the terrifying moment his right side was engulfed.
A 12-year-old schoolboy begged his mother to let him die after he was left to ‘cook in a field’ following a horrendous accident. Hunter Jory is pictured here with his mother Kim
Hunter is pictured in hospital after he was enjulfed in the flames and suffered severe burn injuries – resulting in permanent scarring
After being taken into surgery doctors removed and dressed Hunter’s burnt skin. He will now require a number of skin grafts until he reaches adulthood
He tried to roll after falling to the ground in a desperate attempt to extinguish it while his two friends attempted to remove his coat.
Hunter ran before eventually collapsing in front of a friend’s house.
His mother recalled: ‘I took him to the doctors because there’s one five doors down. They put a cannula in and kept putting water on him until the ambulance came. He was saying “mum, just kill me”.’
Describing the extent of his injuries, the 38-year-old said skin and tissue had been taken on his right thigh, leg and knee as well as hair on the right side of his head.
The accident also took the back of his ear off, skin off his forehead, nose, lips, eyelids and hands as he tried to remove his clothes.
Kim added: ‘His skin was still cooking when we got to the hospital and he was screaming “put me out”.’
After being taken into surgery doctors removed and dressed Hunter’s burnt skin.
The scars are permanent and Hunter will require a number of skin grafts until he reaches adulthood.
Kim (pictured) said said the scarred tissue would stretch every time it grows and therefore rip
She added her son’s face was not the same as it had been before and she had explained this to him but he ‘hadn’t really processed it yet’
 The fire had escalated into a massive explosion as another child threw a petrol can over the flames
Describing the extent of his injuries, 38-year-old Kim said skin and tissue had been taken on his right thigh, leg and knee as well as hair on the right side of his head
The accident also took the back of his ear off, skin off his forehead, nose, lips, eyelids and hands as he tried to take his clothes off
Kim said: ‘You don’t expect it to happen to your child. Hunter is lucky that he ran in the direction that he did’
Hunter’s mother said the scarred tissue would stretch every time it grows and therefore rip.
She added her son’s face was not the same as it had been before and she had explained this to him but he ‘hadn’t really processed it yet’.
The devastated parent is now urging others to teach their children about ‘playing with fire’.
She said: ‘You don’t expect it to happen to your child. Hunter is lucky that he ran in the direction that he did because if he’d gone the other way, I would have been none the wiser and he would have been cooking in a field, screaming in pain on his own.’