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But it was for a funeral that villagers near Lake Victoria gathered last December, to bury a 30-year-old carpenter who was shot dead while celebrating Arsenal's victory over Manchester United.

"I work for myself as a carpenter, I do a good shift every week but I'm exhausted when I come home - I'm in bed by 7pm every night," he explained.

Taking standard crutch measurements from the internet, Qaradaya commissioned a local carpenter to create several prototypes for wooden crutches.

He earned his GED,, external and learned to be a carpenter and bricklayer, but in a pivotal moment for his life, he was introduced to boxing by a coach called Doc Broadus.

But eventually Mr Harrison, a simple clockmaker and carpenter, proved his more illustrious colleagues wrong.