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A 19-year-old British woman has been found guilty of lying about being gang-raped by Israeli youths in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. She had been arrested after withdrawing an allegation that she was attacked by 12 young Israelis in a hotel in July. The woman had said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - but the police denied this. She was found guilty on a charge of causing public mischief, at a court in Paralimni. The judge at the Famagusta District Court adjourned sentencing until 7 January. She could face up to a year in jail and a £1,500 fine, but her lawyers have asked for a suspended sentence. Lawyer Michael Polak, director of Justice Abroad which is assisting the woman, told BBC News that "there were a number of bases for appealing the decision". Ayia Napa false rape claim accused 'unsupported' He said those reasons included the court relying on a retraction statement which was given when no lawyer was present, which he said was a breach of European human rights law. He also criticised the handling of the case by Judge Michalis Papathanasiou, who he said refused to hear any evidence about whether the alleged rape took place.Prosecutors said the woman willingly wrote and signed a statement retracting her claims 10 days after making the initial allegations. The woman told the court this happened under duress with the threat of arrest and that she had been denied access to a lawyer. The trial began at the start of October - with the verdict delayed until now. As he delivered the verdict, Judge Papathanasiou said: "The defendant gave police a false rape claim, while having full knowledge that this was a lie. "During her testimony, the defendant did not make a good impression, she did not tell the truth, and tried to mislead the court." He added "there was no rape or violence" and police had thoroughly investigated, "making all necessary arrests." The judge said his decision was backed up by video evidence showing her having consensual sex. "The reason why she initially gave false statements was because she realised that she was being recorded while she was having sexual intercourse and so she was placed in a difficult position and felt embarrassed. "She then apologised saying she had made a mistake by filing a false statement." Her lawyers had argued that the video found on some of the Israelis' phones showed her having consensual sex with one of the group while others tried to enter the room as she told them to leave. One of the woman's lawyers, Nicoletta Charalambidou, told reporters outside court that they were planning to appeal against the decision to Cyprus' Supreme Court, and if that failed they would take the case to the European Court of Human Rights. "The decision of the court is respected," she said. "However, we respectfully disagree with it. "We believe there have been many violations of the procedure and the rights of a fair trial of our client have been violated." Following the verdict, the woman was heard saying to one of her lawyers "I thought you were asking for a fine", after Ritsa Pekri asked the judge to impose a suspended sentence. Photographers and camera operators were waiting as the teenager left court with her mother. Both women wore white scarves around their faces depicting lips sewn together - brought by protesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women, who filled the court and demonstrated outside. Argentoula Ioannou, a protester from the organisation, said: "I think the verdict was wrong because it was decided on the wrong basis. "That is why the judge demanded in the process of the trial that he didn't want to hear anything of the rape. "So the allegations of the girl were completely excluded from this trial." Twelve men were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and returned home. Nir Yaslovitzh, a lawyer representing some of the Israelis arrested over the alleged rape, welcomed the verdict. "I applaud the court's decision to convict the girl," he said. "I hope the court will find it appropriate to aggravate the punishment imposed on the girl, who refuses to this day to take responsibility for the horrible act she's done against the boys." The British woman spent more than a month in prison before she was granted bail at the end of August, but had not been allowed to leave the island. BBC Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly said the woman's family spent Christmas with her on the Mediterranean island. Earlier this month, her mother told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the past few months had been a "living nightmare". She said her daughter, who was in Cyprus for a working holiday and had been due to start university after the summer, had post-traumatic stress disorder and the symptoms had become "much, much worse" since the alleged rape. She also criticised what she saw as a lack of support from the authorities, saying that her daughter's human rights had been "violated the whole way through" the process.
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A missile strike that targeted a military parade in southern Yemen has killed at least five people. The attack came at the end of a graduation ceremony for recruits to the Security Belt forces - a powerful organisation backed by the United Arab Emirates - in the town of al-Dhalea. Security Belt are part of the coalition that has fought with Yemen's government against the Houthi rebels. Officials have blamed the Houthis for the attack on the parade. Why is there a war in Yemen? Yemen war: Has anything been achieved? The rebels have not yet commented on the reports but they were behind a very similar attack on a Security Belt forces graduation parade last August, which killed more than thirty people. Nine others were injured in the latest blast when the missile hit a viewing stand during the march. Yemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in March 2015, when Houthi rebels seized control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad. Alarmed by the rise of a group they believed to be backed militarily by regional Shia Muslim power Iran, Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Muslim Arab states began an air campaign aimed at restoring Mr Hadi's government.The coalition received logistical and intelligence support from the US, UK and France. Estimates of those killed range from 10,000 to more than 70,000, the vast majority being Yemenis and an estimated two-thirds of those from Saudi-led air strikes.
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by Colin Goodwin 27 December 2019 Please join me for an enthusiasts’ day out in which we make a small tour of some of my favourite establishments. Editor Mark Tisshaw has given me a free hand to go where I want in what I want. This is going to be a day escaping from all talk of connectivity, fast charging and autonomy and from testing bland and dull-to-drive Korean and Volkswagen Group SUVs and crossovers, all of which have snuck into my professional life uninvited. I’ve chosen something very much the opposite of a Volkswagen T-Cross: a brand new Chevrolet Camaro, supplied by Ian Allan Motors down the road in Virginia Water. Ian Allan is the only official GM dealer in the UK and is the establishment that lent us a Corvette in which I had a very pleasant day driving from Brooklands to Brighton earlier this year. The Camaro has the same engine as the ’Vette. So let’s fire up the 6.2-litre V8 and select D for our first port of call. In the past two years both of my local garages have shut. They weren’t dealerships – that wouldn’t have been a great loss – but traditional garages staffed by mechanics who really knew what they were doing. The sort of place that would remove a broken-off stud in a cylinder head in exchange for a pint. But it’s not all disaster, because just a bit farther away from home, still in Hampton and still within walking distance, is Broad Lane Garage. It is one of the coolest garages I’ve ever seen. Its small yard always contains something interesting, like a ’50s Buick, a beach buggy or, as it does today, a family tree of VW vans. There are two split windows, a bay window and several T4s. I’m having a cup of tea with Mike Scotney who, along with his sister Jane, runs the garage that their father founded with a partner in 1960. Scotney doesn’t just cater for the enthusiast, he is one himself. In reception there’s a flathead Ford V8 bare block, a more complete version of which is in Scotney’s own toy. “I’ve got a Model T roadster with a ’37 flathead V8 in it,” he explains. “I take it down to Pendine Sands for the hot-rod races. I tow it behind my 1949 Chevrolet Station Wagon. It’s known as a Tinnie and is the cheaper version of the famous ‘woodie’ wagon, which is what I’d really like to own.” I’d love to spend longer with Mike and Jane but we’ve got more people to see. Next stop is only about 10 minutes away, an outfit called Moto Technique, hidden away on a light industrial estate in East Molesley. I’ve been a regular visitor at this place for more than 30 years and have been mates with founder Kevin O’Rourke for the same length of time. He and his team have restored some incredible machines over the years. I’ve seen at least two 250 GTOs having ground-up restorations, along with dozens of other Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis and pretty much any exotic you care to mention being brought back from the dead to be concours winners. O’Rourke has shifted with the times. Restoration has always been the core business but a few years ago Moto Technique did a lot of insurance work. I remember a crumpled F40, and a 288 GTO before that. O’Rourke’s current passion is resto mods. Lined up in the squeaky-clean workshop are three Ferrari 308 GTBs, each undergoing tasteful upgrading. The green one has strengthened wishbones, 360 Modena brakes and a Moto Technique-manufactured carbonfibre engine lid that saves an enormous amount of weight. Off in the even cleaner engine shop a thorough reworking of the cars’ 3.0-litre V8s is taking place. They’re bored and stroked and fitted with throttle body injection and a full engine management system. I’ve driven a 246 GT that O’Rourke had given the engine management treatment to and it was transformed. His own Dino is fitted with an F355 engine and is a work of art. These 308s are going to give their owners a lot of pleasure.If I have an interesting car to test (and it’s sadly rare these days – see dull crossovers and SUVs) then I head down into Sussex to Goodwood for a sarnie and the hope of seeing something interesting circulating the track – which is what Luc Lacey and I decide to do today. The Camaro most definitely fits into the ‘interesting’ category. It’s a wonderful car to drive slowly. I much prefer Chevrolet’s pushrod V8 to Ford’s 5.0-litre overhead-cammer in the Mustang. Kevin Hurl at Ian Allan will sell you one of these gems for only a few quid over £40,000. When he’s run out of his stock of coupés and convertibles it’s unlikely that any new Camaros will come to our shores. It’s not even certain that Chevrolet will continue to build its iconic pony car for much longer. We’re in luck. There seems to be some sort of manufacturer-customer day in progress at Goodwood. McLaren is here with a few 720Ss, Aston Martin has a Vantage wearing the company’s famous AML 1 number plate, Ferrari has a 812 Superfast and there’s a Singer here too. Aside from the Singer 911 I’d rather have the Camaro than any of these exotics. More luck, Derek Bell is here. Bell is a constant presence in our world, popping up like Zelig at car launches and various events. If you’ve had the pleasure you’ll know what a warm-hearted bloke he is. “You’ll never believe it,” he exclaims, “I’ve just spun that BMW M4 at Madgwick.” If I’d come out with this sentence the world would have replied, ‘and so?’, but D. Bell losing it is unusual. “It’s modern steering: no feel for what the car is doing.” Quite. We must crack on as we want to be at our next stop for afternoon tea. We’ve got to negotiate the A27 east of Brighton and then head north to the village of Buxted in East Sussex, home of Crosthwaite & Gardiner. Put simply, this outfit is one of the finest automotive engineering companies in the world. A bold statement, but given that Mercedes-Benz and Audi trusted the company to build replicas of their Silver Arrows racing cars, the claim is somewhat justified. Dick Crosthwaite, who set the company up in 1969 with the late John Gardiner, is now semi-retired and his son Ollie runs the business day to day. There is much going on at C&W that we’re unable to photograph or talk about, but that doesn’t overly restrict us as there’s plenty to gawp at and ogle. The machine shop is fascinating, with cutting-edge computer-controlled tools producing parts to ridiculously tight tolerances. A trip around the stores is worth another couple of hours of our time. Beautifully turned nuts (with integral washers) for Bugattis, brand-new D-Type cylinder heads. Talking of which, C&W will supply a brand-new E or D-Type racing engine ready to go. Or a 2.5-litre Coventry Climax engine for a Cooper or Lotus F1 car. Then there’s the room where hundreds of patterns are kept. The last time I felt this in awe of history I was standing in the Museum of Cairo.Dick Crosthwaite might be retired but he can’t keep away. He was pottering about the place when I last visited and he’s here today. He’s full of stories, as is Ollie. I could stay for hours but Lacey and I have to hit the road again.We’re winding up our day out with supper at the Ace Café on London’s North Circular Road. The café holds a meeting virtually every evening and tonight it’s British sports cars and performance cars. Our Camaro fits the latter category, then. The traffic is horrendous on the A40 into town (we went north on the A22 from Buxted and then followed the M25 around to the M40), and I’m beginning to wish we’d not bothered and instead stayed longer chatting cars with Dick and Ollie. I’ve been to the Ace Café when its car park was rammed, but that was on a balmy summer’s evening. Tonight there’s just us, a TVR Griffith and an Aston Martin Vantage. London is so busy these days that unless you’re local to the Ace or come by motorcycle it’s a nightmare to get to. It’s a pity that Caffeine and Machine is a bit too far away. But never mind, it’s been a great day out. A simple one with friends met, lots of coffee drunk and good company in a great car that’s full of character. There will be lots of grand days out in the future. Other options A lifetime of being around cars has blessed me with a fat address book, and there are lots of options for future tours like today’s. Next time I might head west, drop in on Nick Mason (like Derek Bell, arch enthusiast Mason pops up everywhere) and kick the tyres of his amazing collection that’s based in Gloucestershire, and visit a company nearby called Retro Track and Air, which is a bit like Crosthwaite & Gardiner but specialises in rebuilding Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. Then finish the day with a blast up the Fosse Way to Caffeine and Machine.
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The health and safety watchdog has ordered bosses at a Glasgow hospital to make improvements. Greater Glasgow health board confirmed it received an improvement notice from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on Christmas Eve. The notice states the hospital has failed to ensure the ventilation system within a ward at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is suitable. A meeting has been set up between the board and HSE to discuss the notice. Timeline: The trials of Scotland's super hospital The notice has been published on the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC) website. It states that the hospital has failed to ensure the ventilation system within Ward 4C is "suitable and sufficient to ensure that high risk patients who are vulnerable to infection are protected from exposure to potentially harmful airborne microbiological organisms". As part of the notice the hospital will be required to carry out a verification of the ventilation system for Ward 4C, a renal transplant/haemato-oncology ward, by 31 March 2020. 'Sorry for the distress' NHS GGC chief executive Jane Grant said: "We are sorry for the distress that patients and their families have experienced by the current issues and want to assure them and the public that we are working with the Scottish government to do everything necessary to remedy the situation." She continued: "Patients who require specialist ventilation are cared for in Ward 4B which is a fully HEPA-filtered ward. "As a further precaution we introduced mobile HEPA filters in Ward 4C in January as part of our control measures when we were investigating infections at that time. "We welcome the opportunity to discuss these actions with the Health and Safety Executive when we meet them in the new year." The improvement notice comes after NHS GGC was escalated to stage four of the NHS Board Performance Framework by Health Secretary Jeane Freeman - the second highest level of Scottish government intervention - in November following its response to infection control. Concerns about the water supply at the hospital were raised after it emerged 10-year-old cancer patient Milly Main died after contracting an infection in August 2017. Earlier this month, the health board instructed legal action against Brookfield Multiplex, a contractor involved in the construction of the hospital. A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We are aware that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has received a notification of contravention letter and an improvement notice from the Health and Safety Executive. "We have been clear that we expect the board to address any identified breaches as a matter of urgency and provide detailed evidence to demonstrate that remedial action has been taken."
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Russia's first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missiles has been put into service, the defence ministry says. The location was not given, although officials had earlier indicated they would be deployed in the Urals. President Vladimir Putin has said the nuclear-capable missiles can travel more than 20 times the speed of sound and put Russia ahead of other nations. They have a "glide system" that affords great manoeuvrability and could make them impossible to defend against. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the "Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10:00 Moscow time on 27 December", calling it a "landmark event". Rocket mystery: What weapon was Russia testing in Arctic? INF nuclear treaty: Russia follows US in suspending pact Mr Putin said on Tuesday the Avangard system could penetrate current and future missile defence systems, adding: "Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons." The West and other nations were "playing catch-up with us", he said.It is hard to determine if Russia's new Avangard hypersonic missile system really has entered service, as Moscow claims, or if this is just an advanced phase of field testing. But President Putin's eagerness to claim bragging rights is to some extent justified. Russia looks to be ahead in the hypersonic stakes. China is also developing such systems; while the US appears to be somewhat behind. Hypersonic missiles, as their name implies, fly very fast, at above Mach 5 - ie at least five times the speed of sound. Hypersonic weapons can take various forms. They can be cruise-type missiles, powered throughout their flight. Or, they can be carried aloft on board a ballistic missile from which the hypersonic "glide vehicle" separates and then flies to its target. Such "boost-glide" systems, as they are known (Avangard appears to be one of these), are launched like a traditional ballistic missile, but instead of following an arc high above the atmosphere, the re-entry vehicle is put on a trajectory that allows it to enter Earth's atmosphere quite quickly, before gliding, un-powered, for hundreds or thousands of kilometres.It is not so much the speed of the hypersonic weapon alone that counts. It is its extraordinary manoeuvrability as it glides towards its target. This poses a huge problem for existing anti-missile defence systems. Indeed the glide vehicle's trajectory, "surfing along the edge of the atmosphere" as one expert put it to me recently, presents any defensive system with additional problems. Thus, if Russia's claims are true, it has developed a long-range intercontinental missile system that may well be impossible to defend against. The announcement that Avangard is operational heralds a new and dangerous era in the nuclear arms race. It confirms once again President Putin's focus on bolstering and modernising Russia's nuclear arsenal. It's indicative of the return of great power competition. Some analysts might well see Russia's development programme as a long-term strategy to cope with Washington's abiding interest in anti-missile defences. The US argument that these are purely designed to counter missiles from "rogue-states" like Iran or North Korea has carried little weight in Moscow. This all comes at a time when the whole network of arms control agreements inherited from the Cold War is collapsing. One crucial treaty - the New START agreement - is due to expire in February 2021. Russia seems willing to extend the agreement but the Trump administration has so far appeared sceptical. With a whole new generation of nuclear weapons at the threshold of entering service, many believe not just that existing agreements should be bolstered, but that new treaties are needed to manage what could turn into a new nuclear arms race.
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Tributes have been paid to a British man and his two children who drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve. Gabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, 9, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died in the pool at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola. Police say they are checking claims the young girl got into difficulties and the other two died trying to save her. The church where Mr Diya was a pastor said its prayers were with the family. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) said in a post on Facebook: "With heavy hearts, we extend our condolences to the family, parish, friends and associates of Area Pastor Gabriel Diya who sadly passed away, along with two of his children... in a tragic incident while on a family holiday in Spain. "At this very difficult time, our prayers are for Pastor Gabriel Diya's family, the parishes that were under his supervision, friends, associates, members of RCCG and the general public," the post added. The church said Mr Diya was also the parish pastor at Open Heavens, a Christian religious group with origins in Nigeria, based in Charlton, south-east London, and he was survived by his wife, assistant pastor Olubunmi Diya, and another daughter. A neighbour of the family told the PA news agency she was "really devastated" to learn of the deaths, describing the Diyas as "very religious, very friendly, very humble". Speaking outside her home in Charlton, Lara Akins, 59, added: "I still can't comprehend it, it's still shocking. "They are so nice, that is why everybody is shocked... we are very friendly with each other." Man and children drowned 'in tragic accident' Three members of same family 'drown' at resort The hotel owners described the incident as a "tragic accident". Police said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool, which has since reopened. Because the pool is a very small one, lifeguards were "not necessary" so there were none present, a spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard told the BBC. The UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman in Spain, thought to be the children's mother. Mr Diya and his daughter were both British passport holders while his son had an American passport. In a statement released on Thursday, the owners of Club La Costa World said the resort "continues to co-operate fully with the the authorities investigating this appalling tragedy". "Naturally, we will continue to offer every assistance and comply fully and transparently with any requests made by them. "At the same time, we are doing everything possible to provide care and support to bereaved family members and to all our other guests," the statement added.Locally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police. "That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health," he told BBC Breakfast. Local journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene. "The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR [resuscitation] as well, but they couldn't help them," he said. "Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them."
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Nick: Mr.SnaPeR Real name: Ahmed Muhammed How old are you?: 22 Which Games you play? and for how long?(each of them): CS 1.6 , PES, PUBG and Call OF Duty...... maybe for 8 hours :v Where are you from?(country and city): Egypt / Alexandria Describe yourself(at least 50 words): well iam a friendly person. I love to have friends. I don't ignore people who talk with me. I do what people ask me to do. i think that's all to say because you will know the rest ? Note some of your qualities: well my qualities in life I am a pharmacist also i was moderator and i know every thing about forum :v Tell us some of your defects: well i get up late for every thing :v On which category/categories have you been active lately?(describe your activity): Devil's club :v Which category/project you want to care off?(choose from THIS LIST): i was moderator so i think i can take care of devil's club How well you speak english?(and other languages): well iam good at English and Arabic :v Do you use TS3? Do you have an active microphone?: yes i have Contact methods: TS3 or here on forum :v Last request: dont have !
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This year, Triumph launched a new version of its Scrambler motorcycle. It’s a 1200cc twin and is almost as ruggedly handsome as the bloke riding it here, a former off-road champion called Matt Reed who runs the Triumph Adventure Riding Experience in Wales. Triumph was going to take the bike to Matt to shoot some promotional video in a deserted forest and, well, the short of it is that I love the Ariel Nomad and it had been a while since I last drove one. So I pitched up too.So there we were, in Wales, with Reed on the motorcycle and me in the Nomad, and between us we came up with a long, rough circuit coursing through the trees, with a pretty simple brief to shoot some brilliant pictures and video and end up with a ‘lap’ time at the end of it, to decide which was quicker. A lap of a place I’d never been to before but where Reed operates on most days of his working life. (Sorry, just wanted to get my excuses in early.) You can buy the Scrambler in two forms, XC or XE, with this range-topping XE model getting better dampers and costing from £12,500. It’s a bit retro, to the extent that technically Triumph calls it a Bonneville derivative and lists it in its ‘modern classics’ range. In classic style it gets twin rear shocks, one each side of the wheel, whereas proper modern dirt bikes would have a single big shock mounted to a swing-arm ahead of the rear wheel, allowing greater and quicker suspension movement. But the bike magazines rate the Scrambler as much more serious than it looks. Triumph throws in a free GoPro video camera when you buy one, too, to encourage owners to take it on some adventures and bring back the footage. I know my way around four wheels a bit better than two, which is why I’d arrived in a Nomad, Ariel’s first foray into off-roading and still my favourite SUV. I know it’s only two-wheel drive but it’s as capable as any 4x4 I could want. Light and with a 245bhp, 2.4-litre Honda engine driving the back wheels through an H-pattern gearbox, I know it’s a riot. Ariel offers three sets of dampers, from ‘quite good’ through to ‘WRC-spec’, and on increasingly aggressive off-road tyres, with this example’s in the middle. There’ll be a new Nomad at some point, using some of the learnings from the latest Atom 4, but this one, launched in 2015, still has so much going for it. It weighs a little under 700kg and although you can get a supercharged version, 245bhp is plenty for me in dust like this. The Nomad is responsive and has a remarkable ability to smooth out or skip over lumps that most off-roaders would pound into. What I perhaps like most is that it retains a sports car-like balance on account of being so light, and rear-drive only. I got it around our course in 3min 42sec. It was a long course and I hadn’t seen it much before, okay? Reed went next on the Triumph and lapped 13 seconds faster than me, in 3m 29sec which, really, I didn’t think was too bad. If it was at the end rather than the start of the day I’d have better known where I was going and might have been closer. So it was more bloke beats bloke than bike beats car and I can live with that because the idea was to make a great vid. I think we did. You can find it, plus our other favourites from this year, online.
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A mother who lost her son to cancer said his voice has urged her to carry on with his "legacy". Laughlin Whiteley died aged seven in 2014 from a relapse of leukaemia after undergoing a stem cell transplant. Before he passed away, he started a charity with his parents to give out craft boxes to severely ill children staying in hospital. "I do feel like he's doing greater things," said his mother Andrea Poyser. "He is alive everywhere." She said a "phenomenal" 700 boxes had now been sent out in his name. Laughlin, who was also known as Lockey, had the idea for his charity while in isolation during his stem cell transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. "Craft and art gave Laughlin a project to keep him busy," said Mrs Poyser. "There are big windows on the isolation ward, and everyone used to walk past and say his room was like an art gallery. "Creating and making is such a simple thing to do. It breaks the day up and is a lovely thing for parents to do with children.The family, who now live in Alburgh, Norfolk, prepare the boxes with help of volunteers who wear protective gloves and sanitise every item. Each contains age-appropriate toys and crafts, and is distributed to bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients in Great Ormond Street and hospitals across the east of England. Premature baby's cuddle 'saved twin's life' The blood clot survivor inspiring teen scientists 'I am not broken nor a problem to solve' Mrs Poyser said the charity, called Unlock a Life for Lockey, had "grown and grown". "Every time I tried to stop it came back to bite me," she said. "I'd had a baby, we'd moved to Norfolk - but then someone would get in touch. "My little boy in heaven was saying, 'You've got to keep going'." Laughlin's former play worker at Great Ormond Street, Amy Crowley, said he was the "most amazing fun", and had "no words to express how grateful" she was for his boxes. "These children are in isolation for a long time... I have one patient who's been here for a year," she said. "The boxes keep them busy for a month and they have things like tents which distract them from the fact they are in hospital... and changes their mood. "So much care and thought goes into each box - it is as though they know the child... they know how much that child needs that box."