The mother of a teenage boy who is believed to have killed himself has alleged that her son was dealt class A drugs in school – and bullied when he would no longer take them.

Gaynor Dyos-Acton also says that son Tom was accused of being a rapist in a vicious hate campaign by bullies who spread the lie around his school, home town and on social media sites.

She told an inquest she was eventually forced to take Tom, who started taking drugs when he was aged just 12, out of Poynton High School for three months to get him away from the dealers.

Tom, 16, was found critically ill at his home on Nickleby Road, Poynton, on October 31, 2013, but died in hospital on November 2.

At the inquest into Tom’s death at Warrington Coroner’s Court, Mrs Dyos-Acton said: “Tom was on Class A drugs sold to him by lads at school. He was on MDMA, amphetamine, cocaine, and there was quite a few tablet ones.

“He was taking them for at least a good 12 months, because if he didn’t, he would get bullied. But if he did what everyone else did they would leave him alone. It was peer pressure. He told me that he started taking them in 2009. The only way we could get him to stop was to take him out of school for three months the next year.”

Gaynor Dyos-Acton with her son Tom  During his absence she claimed shocking lies about Tom started to circulate around the community. She said: “Because he was not in school taking drugs that’s when they had written on the internet that he was a rapist.

“He had been beat up and physically and mentally abused by these kids on a daily basis.”

She also confessed she had resorted to buying cannabis for Tom, who had ADHD, with his Disability Allowance in an effort to help the teen’s recurring insomnia.

“She said on the night of his death she had refused to buy Tom cannabis because he had no allowance left. By then he had left Poynton after passing nine GCSEs and was a student at Manchester College.

But she also described the months before his death as a ‘euphoric time’ for Tom. She said: “It was leaving school in July 2013. He was over the moon that he did not have to walk back through those gates.”

During the inquest his dad, Paul Acton, described how Tom could not go out of their house for fear of being attacked.

He said: “No matter where he went there would be someone there calling him a rapist. He could not even walk to the local shop, which was three or four minutes away.”

The inquest is set to continue at a later date after more evidence is gathered.