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Woman spends a fortune on plastic surgery to look like a cartoon she was jealous of...(PHOTOS)

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Krystina Butel,30, has spent over £130,000 on plastic surgery to transform herself into a £10 cartoon drawing of herself that she posed for in Ibiza when she was just 15.<br />She said </span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'When I saw the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">caricature</span> for the first time on holiday, I was jealous of it. She was so glamorous. She was everything that I wanted to be.'It was like she was holding the carrot out to me, showing me what I could be.Over the years, I've spent more and more on <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">beauty treatments</span> and surgery so I can look just like her.'<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This has included five <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">breast augmentations</span>, lip injections, botox, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">teeth whitening</span> and semi-permanent make-up. Salon owner Krystina even has heart-shaped nipples to complete the 'cartoon' look.</span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'My caricature keeps me going with my dream. She looks exactly how I want to look like. I know I'm closer to it now than I was fifteen years ago but there's always something else I can <a href="" name="more"></a>get in terms of surgery to be more like it.<br />'I can always rely on my caricature to show me what I need to do next. I never think that I'm done for good with my plastic surgery. She shows me that there's never enough.'<br />'That caricature's my icon and it's good to see it and reflect on what I need to look more like. It shows me that I'm not done yet with my cosmetic work.<br /><br />'I don't think I'll ever stop having surgery. When I get older, I'll have to do more things to my face to keep it looking just like this.'</span></blockquote>
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Woman spends a fortune on plastic surgery to look like a cartoon she was jealous of...(PHOTOS)

Krystina Butel,30, has spent over £130,000 on plastic surgery to transform herself into a £10 cartoon drawing of herself that she po...

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Professor Paul Kohler, 55, attacked at his home in Wimbledon on Monday night

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The first night back was terrifying but we can't sell up - that would be giving in': Professor says he won't move out as police release picture of man wanted over beating</span></span></h1>
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<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul Kohler, 55, was attacked at his home in Wimbledon on Monday night</strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was almost blinded in horrific attack which has left him needing surgery</strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler said moving from beloved home would be 'giving in' to thugs</strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two Polish men have appeared in court and were remanded in custody </strong></li>
<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detectives today released CCTV mugshot of suspect Oskar Pawlowichz, 29</strong></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The father-of-four who was savagely beaten in a terrifying home invasion robbery says his family won't be scared out of their home by the thugs who attacked him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Academic Paul Kohler was left with a face covered with livid bruises and fears over his eyesight after the vicious attack he endured at the hands of four masked raiders at his £2million, three-storey Edwardian property in Wimbledon, South-West London.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Defiant, he and his wife Samantha MacArthur - who was threatened with violence by the intruders in last Monday's attack - have spoken of their fears after returning to the family home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bloody, but unbowed: Paul Kohler and his wife Samantha have spoken about returning to their house after the savage home invasion attack that left left him fearing for his life</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler (left), a father-of-four, only left hospital on Saturday night. There were fears he would lose the use of one eye. Oskar Pawlowichz (right), 29, is wanted in connection with the attack </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking to <a href="http://www.itv.com/thismorning/hot-topics/attacked-in-my-own-home" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ITV's This Morning</a> earlier, he was asked whether he would consider selling the home in the aftermath of the attack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Absolutely not,' he said. 'That would be giving in.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, who only left hospital on Saturday night, added: 'There's also a cathartic element of going back to reclaim our territory.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mrs MacArthur also spoke of her emotional return to the family home. She said: 'The first night back was terrifying.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We're finding it difficult to sleep and at every noise you jump up because you think it might be something. It makes you scared in your own house.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their comments came as police today released an image of a man they want to question in relation to the violent aggravated burglary.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oskar Pawlowichz, 29, is wanted in connection with the attack and is described as 6ft tall and of a stocky build. He is bow-legged and walks with a limp.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pawlowichz was born in Tarnow, Southern Poland, and has links to numerous areas in south London.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers believe that Pawlowichz is the same man who appeared in previously issued CCTV footage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detective Inspector Dan O'Sullivan, of Merton Burglary Squad, said: 'We are calling for members of the public, in particular the Polish community, to assist us in tracing Pawlowichz's whereabouts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We believe that he may make an attempt to flee from the UK to Poland, and at present we are in direct liaison with the Polish authorities, UK Borders Agency and Interpol and a co-ordinated effort to detain Pawlowichz is underway.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers have also made a third arrest in connection with the enquiry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A 30-year-old man was arrested early this morning on Garratt Lane in Wandsworth on suspicion of Aggravated Burglary. He is currently in custody at a South London police station pending further investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, a Cambridge-educated law lecturer, previously spoke in graphic detail about the brutal attack that shocked the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When he opened the door of his six-bedroom house on Monday night, he had been enjoying a tranquil evening playing board games with his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The last thing he expected was that within moments he would be battling for everything he most loved.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, the head of law at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, said he thought only of protecting his family as he fought back furiously against the intruders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I regard my home as my domain and suddenly these men break through the defences.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Within my domain I had this hostile force and I felt incredibly protective. I had my family there and this whole notion of an Englishman’s home is his castle – that was the feeling. I realised I’d stupidly let into my house someone who was out to create havoc, and there’s a real sense of fear and panic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But I felt I had to defend my home and my family. I really was fighting for my life.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still smiling: Paul Kohler, who was left battered by his attackers, with daughters Eloise (left) and Bethany (right)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In stitches: Eloise, who was home at the time of the attack, and Paul share a joke while Bethany stays close</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Proud: Paul clings to two of his four daughters at his hospital bedside while his wife Sam stands by them</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler’s ordeal, during which he suffered severe blood loss and injuries that could permanently damage his sight, began at 10pm on Monday when he heard the doorbell ring.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unusually, he said, he had won several rounds of the intellectually challenging game Lost Cities, and his wife Sam had gone upstairs to ‘lick her wounds’.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His daughter Eloise, 24, and her boyfriend Geraint had earlier had supper with the couple but had gone upstairs to watch television in her room, a piece of good fortune that probably saved the family from an even worse fate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His other three daughters, Saskia, Bethany and Tamara, were not in the house, and Mr Kohler, who was alone downstairs when the doorbell rang, said he assumed it was one of his daughters’ friends.</span></div>
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CCTV of the suspect who attacked Paul Kohler in Wimbledon</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Mr Kohler runs the Cellar Door bar in Central London with his wife Samantha, centre, and business partner Gordon Anderson. The popular venue is located in a converted underground toilet frequented by Oscar Wilde" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="10" height="421" id="i-fa6897ab177f72b5" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408219740654_wps_6_paul_kohler_facebook_2_jp.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler runs the Cellar Door bar in Central London with his wife Samantha, centre, and business partner Gordon Anderson. The popular venue is located in a converted underground toilet frequented by Oscar Wilde</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: ‘I could see a silhouette of someone through the glass – it’s pretty badly lit out in the hall – and it looked just like the height and haircut of one of the girls’ mates. So I opened the door and this guy appeared to fall through the door.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Before I even thought what’s happening I had blows raining down on me. They hit me before they said anything. Then the one at the front started saying, “Where’s the money?” It was a dark hallway, but from what I could see of them they had covered their faces.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Then they pushed me away from the door so I wasn’t making sound out into the street.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bloody and relentless assault continued as the men punched and kicked Mr Kohler almost 20ft along the hallway until he was at the door of his dining room. ‘They were pushing me to the dining room and I was trying to defend the stairs a bit because I knew my family were up there,’ he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘I was punching away and thrashing away. I couldn’t punch like them, but I was doing my best and shouting and they were trying to shut me up.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He recalled: ‘I shouted out “Sam, ring the police!” – a move he said he instantly regretted because it alerted the burglars to Sam’s whereabouts. In response, one of the four thugs ran upstairs, forced Sam to lie on the floor and stood over her for the duration of the burglary.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After that Mr Kohler was careful to not reveal that Eloise was in her bedroom at the top of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His quick-thinking daughter, hearing the commotion, was able to lock her bedroom door and call 999. She then turned off the light before crawling under the bed with her boyfriend and speaking to the police in hushed tones.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘That’s all I kept thinking, “We’re going to die.” I was so scared. The policewoman was trying to calm me down, but I was just sobbing.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul pictured shortly after the attack (left) which happened on Monday night at his home in Wimbledon (right)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officers believe the suspect fled from King's Road and through the car park of the New Wimbledon Theatre</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police investigating the violent burglary want to speak to this man who was seen moments after the attack</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Mr Kohler had been ‘blinded’ in his left eye by the force of the blows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the dining room, where he was surrounded by his familiar furniture including a piano and cocktail cabinet, the attack took an even more menacing turn. He said: ‘One of the men pushed me back so I was lying in the doorway of the dining room and jumped on top of me and was just beating me remorselessly with his fists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Another one was behind me kicking me in the head, and another held my legs down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘One of the first punches I received in the hallway had caused me to lose all sight in my left eye, so it meant I was blindsided on one side and couldn’t see anything coming.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘One of them was kicking me from the side and I couldn’t see them coming. He was just smashing at my face and the power of the blows was just phenomenal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘The guy who came in first was grabbing at my groin and trying to grab my testicles, but it was impossible in that position while I was kicking.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, the moment that really terrified Mr Kohler was when one of his tormentors pulled out a roll of gaffer tape and attempted to gag him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: ‘I was biting at it because there’s something about if you’ve lost all your physical freedom and then they try to take your voice as well, which is your only defence mechanism – you panic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘So I bit at the tape and bit at it every time he tried to put it on and it stuck together. So he gave up doing that.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At this point, Sam tried to escape from the man who was standing over her upstairs, causing two of Mr Kohler’s attackers to run upstairs to his aid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler’s remaining assailant then attempted to put his hands over the academic’s mouth and nostrils, prompting Mr Kohler to try to break free, but then the two other men came back down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Then I was facing all three and one of them hit me again on my blind side, so I was down again,’ he said. ‘Then the ringleader picked up the heavy, wooden door of the cocktail cabinet, which is loose and has come off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'And he knelt above me, holding the door above his head, saying, “Tell me where the money is” – and threatening to bring it down on my head, and I’m bracing myself thinking he’s about to hit me with the door.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler, left, was at home with his wife Samantha, right, and daughter Eloise, centre at the time of the attack</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added: ‘At that point a copper just flew through the door like the cavalry. He grabbed at the guy who was kneeling on my shoulders and pinned him down.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When his wife and daughter emerged unhurt, he said there were ‘tears of emotion’ but also bewilderment over what had happened.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The devastating assault on Mr Kohler lasted only eight minutes, but it left the house covered in blood and was described by the detective inspector investigating the case as the ‘most brutal’ he has seen in 20 years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler said he was ‘unrecognisable’ with swelling on the side of his head the size of a football, while blood flowed from his mouth and eyes. He was unable to open his eyes for two days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doctors at the hospital to which he was taken had to carry out an emergency transfusion because he had lost so much blood because of internal bleeding, putting a strain on his heart. He now faces reconstructive surgery on a cracked eye socket that could still could leave permanent damage to his sight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Kohler said they were still bemused about the motive for the attack, especially as little was taken and their house is close to a police station.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: ‘There are only two possibilities. It’s either a mistaken address or someone has made the stupid assumption because we own a small bar in Covent Garden, the Cellar Door, that we have a large amount of money in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But most people buy their drinks with credit cards. We have a few hundred pounds at most that comes into the house and goes straight to the bank.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two Polish men have appeared in court and were remanded in custody but police are seeking the other two suspects. Both are believed to be aged between 20 and 30 and from Eastern Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detectives have released CCTV images of one of the suspects running through Wimbledon Theatre car park. He can be seen removing the surgical gloves which he wore during the attack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kieran pictured shortly after his operation at Great Ormond Street</span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: SkyTextMedium, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.625rem; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> nine-year-old boy born without ears has been given a new pair - made from his ribs.</span></div>
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Kieran Sorkin was teased at school after being born deaf and with small lobes where his ears should be.</div>
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But he has now gained some hearing after a six-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.</div>
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Surgeons used cartilage from his ribs to create a pair of ears and grafted them to his head.</div>
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He is still around 90% deaf, but when using hearing aids he can "hear the wind blow and the birds tweet", his father David, from Bushey, Hertfordshire, said.</div>
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Before and after: Kieran was born deaf and with small lobes</div>
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He said the operation will boost the youngster's confidence "no end".</div>
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"We're absolutely on cloud nine," he said. "We could not have wished for a better result.</div>
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"They look like normal ears. He had nothing, but has got proper sized ears now and they cover the gap where ears should have been.</div>
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"They look normal bar a couple of sewing marks which will go away in time.</div>
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"His reaction was just a 'wow', he is very happy."</div>
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Kieran's family are delighted with the surgery</div>
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The 44-year-old IT manager added: "He had problems at school in that he didn't gel very well in the groups because he looked different to other kids and he only had one or two friends at his previous school.</div>
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"He has now moved to a different school now and they have a deaf unit in every year so they are a little bit more receptive to deafness and to a child looking different.</div>
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"But this will boost his confidence no end."</div>
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Kieran was born with bilateral microtia - which affects one in 100,000 babies - a congenital deformity where the external ear is underdeveloped.</div>
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