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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Julia Roberts & Milica Cosic

Double amputee, 8, stranded at Gatwick for 5 HOURS after wheelchair stuck on plane

The family of a double amputee are "appalled" after the eight-year-old boy was left stranded at Gatwick Airport without his wheelchair for hours this morning, after it got stuck on a plane.

Tony Hudgell was left stranded at the busy airport for five hours on Monday and, shockingly, when his chair did turn up it arrived all "twisted and bent", the family have said.

The brave lad and his family were returning from a magical trip to Lapland in the early hours of Monday, but his special wheelchair - that cost £6,500 - was nowhere to be seen after disembarking from their Jet2 plane.

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