Pain and Campaign: The North East mothers fighting for change despite unbearable loss

Katherine Errington calls herself an ordinary woman.

A working mum, earning a living, raising a family and building a loving home with her partner Robbie on Tyneside.

But she's also an extraordinary woman.

A woman whose home was blown apart in the middle of the night last October when a shatter cannabis drugs lab in the flat underneath hers exploded.

A woman who miraculously was pulled alive from the wreckage of her bedroom that night as she heard the screams of her own baby and wondered how many of her family were still alive.

And a woman left coping with the unending grief at the loss of her other child, seven-year-old Archie - the only one in her house that night who didn't survive.

Simply finding the strength to carry on, many would agree, is impressive enough in itself. And she's doing that after moving into a new home with her partner Robbie.

But Katherine is also doing so much more - taking on Parliament to campaign against concurrent sentencing for serious crimes where more than one person is killed.

And she's not stopping there. In the weeks and months to come, she plans to fight also to raise awareness about shatter cannabis production and the availability of the deadly butane gas that fuels the homemade labs like the one that killed her boy Archie.

Her campaigning courage puts her alongside a handful of other women from the North East who've somehow found the same strength through their own pain.

In a few days time, the ITVX drama I Fought The Law will retell the story of Ann Ming from Teesside - who managed to get the centuries-old law of double jeopardy overturned to finally win justice for her daughter's murder.

Sharon Henderson from Wearside fought for more than 30 years for justice for her seven-year-old daughter Nikki Allan with the same unswerving determination.

And then there's women like Tanya Brown, Alison Madgin and Zoey McGill - North East mothers who all lost children to knife crime who all still fight for change and to raise awareness.

Just like Katherine they would all call themselves 'ordinary' women.

They share a characteristic of somehow managing to live for their lost children instead of effectively dying with them.

And though it remains to be seen whether Katherine's calls are met with any change in the law - we know already never to underestimate how long, how hard, and how passionately they are prepared to fight for their cause.

Katherine Errington returned to the Benwell blast site to launch her campaign in an exclusive interview with Gregg Easteal.

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