Man quizzed over assault on McAllister
Mum’s help for daughter who couldn’t carry a child
VICTIM Gary McAllister A MAN has been arrested in connection with an attack on former footballer Gary McAllister.
The ex-Leeds, Liverpool and Scotland star lost three teeth when he was punched in the face on a night out with his wife.
The Rangers assistant manager, 53, was waiting for a taxi outside a bar in Leeds city centre at around 4am on Sunday.
Former team-mate Dominic Matteo appealed for witnesses to the “vicious and unprovoked” assault” to come forward.
Gary was taken to hospital and needed plastic surgery on his lip.
West Yorkshire Police said yesterday a 32-yearold man had been arrested and “released under investigation and enquiries remain ongoing”.
Adam and Tracey on their wedding day
Emma Miles, Tracey Smith and little Evie Smith A LOVING mum gave birth to her own grandchild to help her daughter, who has no womb.
Emma Miles, 55, had little Evie by caesarean section so daughter Tracey Smith could have a family with husband Adam.
And tomorrow the proud family will be celebrating their first Mother’s Day together.
Tracey said: “I’m so grateful to mum for her amazing gift to us.
“Every moment of heartache was so worth it just to have our little bundle in our arms.”
Tracey was 15 when doctors found she had no womb and could never carry a child.
She was later diagnosed with the rare Mayer-RokitanskyKüster-Hauser syndrome, which causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent.
At the time Emma vowed to do anything to help her girl have a family of her own – a promise she repeated often over the years.
When Tracey’s husband Adam said he wanted a family, she knew who to turn to for help.
Tracey said: “I remembered mum’s promise. So the next time we met up I asked her if she’d been serious about carrying our baby.
“I was delighted when she replied: ‘Of course I was’. She had just been waiting for me to ask.”
Emma, from Lampeter, Ceredigion, West Wales, lost 6st to reach a healthy weight to get pregnant.
She also took hormone tablets, and an egg was taken from Tracey and fertilised in a lab then placed in Emma’s womb. The process was successful on the first attempt, and Evie was delivered in January weighing 7lb 7oz.
Tracey said: “Adam and I were allowed to both stay by mum’s side as Evie came into the world.
“It was such an incredible emotional moment.”
Adam and Tracey, of Coventry, are going through the legal process of formally adopting Evie.
Supermarket worker Emma, also mum to Nicola, 24, said: “To find out that Tracey couldn’t have children was gutting to me.
“Just after her diagnosis I remember sitting on her bed and saying, ‘I’m here if you need me.’
“Despite my age I wasn’t worried about giving birth at all.
“All of my focus has been about doing this special thing for my daughter. Tracey is my baby and I did it all for her to be a mother.”
And she is ready to repeat the process, saying: “I have offered to do it all again if they ever want a little brother or sister for Evie.” EMMA MILES AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO EVIE
I wasn’t worried. All my focus was on doing this for my girl