A GRIEVING Petersfield mother says it was luck that her surviving son wasn't injured when a tree crashed on to the roof directly above his bedroom during the Valentine's Day storm.

Last summer Alexia Pearce lost her five-year-old son and brought her elder son Dominic, aged eight, to live in the house owned for ten years by her parents Curtis and Penny Carma so they could recover.

During the storm, winds gusted above 70mph and at about 11.15pm the huge fir tree behind the house in Great Hanger on the Herne Farm estate came crashing down, smashing into the roof tiles over Dominic's bedroom.

Alexia said: "We heard it fall and crash as it hit the roof. But fortunately I had been worried about the tree so when the wind started I moved Dominic into a bedroom at the front of the house."

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