Former child star with cerebral palsy died ‘needlessly’ in LA fires, says mother

A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon on Saturday (Jae C. Hong/AP)

A British-born former child star who was blind and had cerebral palsy “died needlessly” in the Los Angeles wildfires, his mother has claimed.

Shelley Sykes travelled to her local fire department after struggling to get through to the emergency services to move her son Rory from his self-contained cottage next to her property, while flames surrounded the area.