Moss Side Stories: ‘I felt his breath, then all of a sudden it faded away’ Lawrence Higgins, a young Mancunian artist, was compared to Picasso and David Hockney. But in 1988, aged just 24, he took his own life. Here his mother recounts that painful time. Click on the image to see this amazing film on Guardian.co.uk.

Moss Side Stories: ‘I felt his breath, then all of a sudden it faded away’

Lawrence Higgins, a young Mancunian artist, was compared to Picasso and David Hockney. But in 1988, aged just 24, he took his own life. Here his mother recounts that painful time.

Click on the image to see this amazing film on Guardian.co.uk.