Ruby Roussos, who shares the same birthday as Saffie Roussos, the youngest victim of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, has won the Saffie’s Smile Awards. The awards celebrate children aged 16 or under who have shown incredible character and gone above and beyond to help others.
Their daughter Saffie — who should be exactly the same age as Ruby and even shares the same date of birth — did not get to see another birthday after 2016.Until now, Saffie’s name and legacy have been linked with the deadliest strike on UK soil for more than a decade.
Diagnosed with depression, Ruby had counselling and therapy but shortly after her tenth birthday in 2020, tragedy struck again. Ruby, meanwhile, will celebrate both her and Saffie’s 17th birthday in exactly the same place next July. Having started an animal care diploma at a local college, Ruby gets up at 5am to travel the 64-mile round trip every day and the teenager has dreams of working with animals when she graduates.Emma adds: “Ruby was a prefect at school in her final year — her brother Charley was one too when he was there.
Back at Longleat, after being given a cuddly tiger by the park managers, Ruby spotted Zachary Penn, five, from Ealing in “I didn’t know what was happening when she gave it to him but when she explained, I can see why Ruby was chosen as the winner — she’s an incredible young woman.”HIS mum Fran had a series of strokes in 2017, which left her temporarily paralysed when the lad was five years old.
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