The woman who adopted double amputee Tony Hudgell will collect her OBE on the same day one of his torturers asks to be freed from jail.
But inspirational Paula Hudgell is determined her and Tony’s day out at Windsor Castle will not be marred by Anthony Smith’s appearance before the Parole Board.
Tony’s father and birth mum Jody Simpson were jailed for 10 years for abusing the boy so badly he needed both legs amputating.