A heroic 11-year-old schoolboy saved his mother and took control of the situation after she had a seizure.

Emily Corrigan, 32, has been battling with brain tumours for the past five years.

She has been in and out of operations and was booked to have another surgery to remove a growth on January 10.

However, three days before her surgery she had a seizure while getting into the bath at her home in Oxhey.

It was her boy Sonny Wilson who found her lying on the floor dangerously against the radiator in the bathroom which was at risk of burning her.

Emily said: “It’s scary to think what he saw there, for an 11-year-old to see his mum on the floor you would think he would be in shock.”

However, Sonny got into gear and pulled his mother away from the radiator, called his father, Stuart, and then called an ambulance.

Remarkably, the 11-year-old schoolboy calmed down his three siblings, Harvey, 7, and six-year-old twins Francesca and Annabelle, who had now seen what happened to their mother – locked the family Bulldog, Buster, in the garden when paramedics arrived and turned off the oven which Emily put on before her seizure.

Emily said: “I’m just so proud of him, taking control of the situation.

“He doesn’t like to talk about it, and it makes him upset to think about it.

“He is a very sensitive boy, and you wouldn’t think he would be so sensible because he is an 11-year-old.

“but he is so strong.”

She added: “I’m so proud and so grateful for the way he cared about everyone and the way he put everything and everyone in front of himself.”

“We couldn’t ask any more of him.”

Emily was taken to Watford General Hospital and then later released when doctors found she had no brain damage.

She made it to her appointment on January 10, and the operation to remove her tumour was a success.

However, Emily has been told she may have a chronic condition and requires frequent check-ups and MRIs every so often to keep safe.