Scots squaddie Charles Inness and the pair were hailed by the Dalai Lama after being invited to meet the spiritual leader in 2010.Richard was robbed of his sight, aged 10, after being hit by a rubber bullet as he walked home from school past a military checkpoint in Derry in 1972.They first came face-to-face for a BBC documentary in 2006.
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