The boy of TEN who weighs 17st
With a 47in waist, Kyon is UK’s most overweight primary pupil
AT 17 stone, ten-year-old Kyon Fritz Marriott is thought to be Britain’s most overweight primary school pupil.
He is set to undergo weight-loss surgery when he is 12 – but until the media drew attention to his case, he was repeatedly refused other treatment.
Doctors say there is no medical reason for his extreme weight other than overeating and lack of exercise, but his mother Nadine Marriott, 44, says lack of treatment is putting his health at risk.
‘I am scared for my child,’ she said. ‘I am scared that if obesity doesn’t kill him, the bullies will.
‘I don’t understand why the NHS will fund expensive surgery but they won’t fund the psychological help he needs.
‘Who knows what state he will be in by the time he is 12? I live in fear that if his weight doesn’t destroy his health he will
‘If obesity doesn’t kill him, the bullies will’
end up stabbed or beaten to death by the bullies who are making his life hell.’
Kyon, who is 5ft 1in and has a 47in waist, said he feels like a ‘slave’ to his weight, telling the Sunday Mirror: ‘I just want to be a normal ten-year-old. I just want help.
‘I feel like a prisoner. I can’t go out and live a normal life.’ Mrs Marriott applied for her son to attend £4,000 residential weightloss camp, MoreLife. But he was refused a place until press attention saw health bosses finally give way this weekend.
He has now been offered a place at the next camp in 2019. Mrs Marriott admitted she feels guilty for serving portions of his favourite dinners too large for his age.
She admitted it was hard to tell exactly how much food he consumes as he eats so much in secret – locking himself in the bathroom of their South London home for secret binges, hiding empty crisp packets and chocolate wrappers afterwards. Mrs Marriott, whose other son and daughter are of a normal weight, said: ‘When I first saw he had been stealing food, my heart broke. Now every time I hear the fridge door open I panic. But I have to put my hands up as mum.’ NHS data shows that a third of children leave primary school overweight or obese at 11. Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said in October: ‘The evidence shows that children are being fed more than they require.’
A spokesman at King’s College Hospital in London, which assessed Kyon, said: ‘The patient was assessed and no medical reason was identified for his obesity.
‘His family were advised that at his age, weight loss could only be achieved by diet and exercise.’