Yob jailed for street attack
BATTERED Warden Charlie A THUG filmed taking part in a street attack on a traffic warden was jailed for nine months yesterday.
Danyal Bashir, 20, was one of five men who battered defenceless Charlie Weston, 21, for ticketing a car in Alum Rock, Birmingham.
He admitted ABH when he appeared before the city’s crown court. A judge told him: “What you did was for nothing more than your own self-gratification. It was unacceptable.” Brave Oscar Dunkley with mum Abbie, dad Josh and older brother Jack ABBIE BURKMAR MUM OF BOY AWAITING HEART OP PLIGHT Wednesday’s Mirror, with Oscar’s plea THE Lords yesterday backed an opt-out organ donor system in a triumph for the Mirror’s Max’s Law campaign.
The Bill was voted through unopposed, meaning a change to presumed consent could get royal assent in the New Year.
Heart transplant boy Max Johnson, 10, who became the face of our campaign, said: “I am chuffed the law is going through.”
The news also came as a huge boost for 14-month-old Oscar Dunkley, who is waiting for a new heart. Mum Abbie Burkmar said the vote was “amazing”.
Abbie, partner Josh and their son Jack, four, of Bournemouth, Dorset, are with Oscar as he clings to life at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Abbie said: “If Oscar received a transplant we would all be back at home and he would be given a normal life.”
Labour peer Lord Hunt, who introduced the Bill, said it could move consent rates in England from 65% to 80%, and lead to 700 more transplants a year. He said: “It’s time to make a change.”
Tory Health Minister Lord O’Shaughnessy said it could “make organ donation a part of our culture”.
Labour’s Lord Elder, who told peers of his own heart transplant, said the new law would make “transplantation more accepted”. Baroness Thornton praised the Mirror’s “tireless campaign”.
Scotland is also considering an opt-out scheme, which Wales introduced in 2015.
If Oscar received a transplant he would be given a normal life
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