A mother whose son died after a history of cannabis-induced psychosis has teamed up with a charity to fund a cautionary play for secondary schools.

The family of 22-year-old Giles Brown believe it was the use of cannabis that cost their son his life.

He was found frozen to death in an outbuilding in Keighley near his home last New Year.

Now Giles' mother Diana Bayliss, with the help of family and friends, has raised £3,000 in his memory and is using it to get actors into schools with an emotional theatre production.

The money has been channelled through the Hearing Voices charity to Full Monty actor Steve Huison's Shipley-based Shoestring Theatre Company.

Reading The Signs starts its tour of schools in February and bookings are now being taken.

And now extra funding is being sought to produce a teacher's pack and DVD for schools to follow-up issues raised by the production and its workshop discussions.

Mrs Bayliss, of Cowling, Keighley, said: "When Giles died I felt very strongly I had to tell people about what happened because at the time he needed help there was no understanding of the problems he had been having and that effected how he was treated and helped cause his death. I felt I wanted to shout about it.

"I want to remember the whole of his life not just the problems he had in his later years. The support and care that we have had from friends, family and from people who have also experienced the kind of problems that Giles had has helped drive forward the fundraising events that have made offering Reading The Signs production to schools possible. It has kept me going and has given a meaning to everything, if we can make something good come out of this."

Mr Huison said he hoped schools would book up the production to help pupils understand people have a mental health as well as a physical health that needed looking after.

Last November, Giles spent a month at Airedale Hospital at Steeton, before being discharged on doctors' advice.

He went to Spain to visit a sister, but returned after a psychotic episode and bought a tent, telling his family he intended to camp rather than rely on others. He died two months later.

Funds were raised by a memorial gig at his local parish church and a sponsored rock climb on what would have been his 23rd birthday on August 5. Money is also still coming in from a quilt hand-made by his aunt Kathy Lee.

Any schools wanting to find out more about booking Reading The Sings, a story of recovery, should contact Shoestring Theatre Company on 0789 9772903.

e-mail: kathie.griffiths@bradford.newsquest.co.uk