A GRIMETHORPE roofer who was inspired to take part in a charity boxing tournament having heard about a cancer-stricken youngster helped raise more than £1,000.

Ewan Wright, 25, was keen to give it a go when Wakefield-based promoter Nathan Dixon and his wife Jenna staged a charity boxing event at Lightwaves - dubbed Mission to Remission - to raise funds for young Reggie Davison.

Reggie was just four years old when he started being randomly sick, which doctors initially put down to a food intolerance.

However, his mum, Kirsty Benson, finally got him into a doctor who sent him to the hospital for a CT scan which showed a brain tumour.

Having undergone a 12-hour-long removal procedure, he has since endured bouts of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Ewan, who is a dad of two, was inspired to take part in the event - and he even won the tournament.

“I guess a lot of people have wondered what it’d be like to do some training and get in the ring and I thought why not,” he added.

“I was keen to have the experience and see how I’d handle myself.

“In the end I did some training at a gym in Grimethorpe where I live and then took on a lad who’d had over a hundred bouts.

“I was delighted to get the win and to have proved to everyone I could do more than just hold my own in the ring.”