A key worker desperate to hug her crying six-year-old dressed in full hazmat gear to comfort him. Sheila Abbott was missing being able to hug her four grandchildren so much, but took things into her own hands when the youngest, Mason began sobbing to see her.
The supermarket worker dressed head-to-toe in a protective hazmat suit, complete with face mask, and paid a surprise visit to the youngster.
Sheila, 60, went into her daughter Stacey’s garden and waited until an overjoyed Mason spotted her and ran into her arms. She said: “I went around the back of the house, put on all the protective kit and stood there while Stacey said to Mason ‘look outside, I’ve got a surprise for you’. “When he came running towards me I actually couldn’t hold