Police were sent to knock on the door of a nine-year-old boy who had been selling air fresheners outside a petrol station to raise money to buy presents for his family.
Donnan McHale wanted enough money to buy Christmas presents for his brother and sister and so bought packs of four air fresheners from a pound shop split them up and sold them for £1 each outside a Tesco petrol station.
But after a call from his school, police officers were sent to investigate, Donnan's mum Alicia has revealed.