LYDIA & HER DAD 2007
Six-year-old Child of Courage Lydia Cross, who’d lost her legs to meningitis aged three, hadn’t seen her dad for months as he had a dangerous security job in Iraq.
I remember saying to her: “Look at that camera and you can talk to daddy, he’ll talk to you from Iraq.” But we’d flown him over.
I was standing next to her and, as he was approaching, you could hear his normal voice as opposed to through the speakers. That’s when she realised and he came out from behind the screen. It was lovely.”