My son’s legs were amputated after his biological parents beat him – this Christmas he performed his first nativity

CHEEKY Tony Hudgell grins at the audience as he proudly speaks his nativity lines - just five years after his evil parents beat him so violently he lost both his legs. 

But now the five-year-old schoolboy - a “total show off” with a “very cheeky character” - is enjoying his first year at school.

Despite enduring multiple problems as a result of the abuse he suffered - including a permanently dislocated left hip, arthritis, deafness and infections - he attends a mainstream school where he has lots of little friends and loves his teachers. 

And taking to the stage for his nativity is a day his adopted mum Paula Hudgell, 52, from Kent, feared she’d never see after Tony was left close to death suffering from organ failure, numerous fractures and sepsis when he was abused at just weeks old.

He was just 41 days old when he was admitted to hospital with life-threatening injuries caused by his abusive parents and later had his legs amputated.

Jody Simpson, 24, and dad Tony Smith, 47, from Kent, had both denied child cruelty but were eventually convicted and jailed for just 10 years.