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Stephen, who attended the investiture along with his mum Joan and sisters Karen Murray and Christine Davies, said his dad's honour had been "a long time coming".

It means parental leave is now equal between mums and dads in Spain.

The mum of a disabled five-year-old does press ups every morning in order to be able to care for him but is scared of what will happen when he gets too big to manage alone.

The Englishman, born to a Albanian father and a British-Yemeni mother, became hooked on the sport when his mum brought him to a boxing gym aged five.

"My mum would have wanted me to tell her story because she is not the only one who will have faced these problems."