THE mother of murdered teenager Tony Bromley told how she tried to arrange protection for a witness in her son’s case.

Sandra Bromley said she took the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to see a friend because he was too frightened to speak out.

Prosecutors claim her son was chased through Anfield before being chopped down with a machete on Valentine’s Day this year.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the 18-year-old was the target of the Grizedale Crew, run by the drug-dealing Gee family, in north Liverpool.

Mrs Bromley said she took the witness to see a man in Toxteth.

She said: “He didn’t want to go to the police because he was scared. I said I could get someone to protect him.”

She said she took him to see a doorman she had known for years and, after the doorman promised to protect him, she drove the witness to the police station.

She later denied taking the witness to her friend to be threatened, and said she didn’t know what her friend meant when he mentioned “pushing up daisies”. She said: “He said a few other things to him, something like ‘Did you set Tony up’?

“Then I stepped in. I didn’t take him there to be threatened. I took him there to be reassured.”

Both Denis Gilboy, 24, of Whitehaven Road, and Scott Walker, 23, formerly of the Grizedale Estate, Anfield, deny murder.

The case continues.