Anthony Simpson never knew his father; the story he was told is that soon after he was born, his father came to see him at the hospital, took one look at him, and concluded he was not his child.

Simpson was born with only one leg and eight fingers.

After his father’s declaration, his mother panicked and abandoned him at the health facility.

Neglected by his parents, he was nurtured by hospital staff and, eventually, caregivers at the SOS Children’s Village in Stony Hill, St Andrew, where he grew up.