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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Julia Roberts

'My son was so badly abused by birth mother he lost his legs - now I'm battling cancer'

The adoptive mum of brave double amputee Tony Hudgell today talks for the first time of her own fight – with bowel cancer.

Campaigning Paula Hudgell says steeling herself to beat the disease has given her yet more determination to ensure child killers and abusers get tougher punishment.

Her lobbying led to Tony’s Law, named after the seven-year-old who was battered by his birth parents.

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