A 5-year-old boy with two prosthetic legs has raised more than £1 million for the hospital that saved his life when he was just weeks old, by walking a total of six miles over the past month.
Tony Hudgell lost both his legs after suffering abuse from his biological parents as a newborn, which left him on life support at a London children's hospital.He set out to raise £500 for the same hospital by walking throughout June -- but smashed that target almost instantly, raising £1.1 million on his online fundraising page as of Wednesday.
Read MoreTony had only recently learned to walk on crutches but was inspired to complete the challenge after watching"Captain Tom" Moore, the 100-year-old war veteran who became a national celebrity after raising more than $40 million for Britain's National Health Service by doing 100 laps of his back garden, his JustGiving page says.
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