Hearing gift from dead mother

A SIX-YEAR-OLD who lost his chief connection with the hearing world when his mother died in a car crash just before Christmas 2002 is today being assessed for specialist hearing implants.

Bobby Maher might hear properly for the first time later this year if two consultants at Birmingham Children’s Hospital find him suitable for the implants.

It was his mother’s wish that her second youngest child never be marginalised because of his hearing problems. Susan Maher rallied at his side through a hole-in-the-heart operation when he was three.