Brave Tony Hudgell is set to hit the £500,000 mark as he reaches the half-way point in his 10km challenge for the hospital that saved his life.
The five-year-old, who lost both his legs as a baby after horrific abuse by his birth parents, is walking on his new prosthetic legs and crutches every day this month to reach his target.
Tony was 41 days old when he was admitted to hospital in 2014, so badly injured he was not expected to survive. Medics battled to save him and later amputated both legs below the knee, and adoptive parents Paula and Mark Hudgell were warned he might not crawl, let alone walk.
But today, using limbs fitted three months ago, he will have notched up 5km. He has already raised over £440,000 for Evelina Children’s
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