New Year Honours list 2024: Nine-year-old Tony Hudgell is the youngest person to receive a British Empire Medal

Nine-year-old Tony Hudgell was so badly abused by his birth parents as a baby that both his legs had to be amputated. Yet despite this cruelty Tony has raised around £2m for charity by walking distances and climbing mountains on his crutches.

Saturday 30 December 2023 02:33, UK

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Tony and his adoptive parents also campaigned for tougher sentences for child cruelty - which led to Tony's Law being introduced in 2022.
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