A DJ has made a grieving schoolboy's Christmas after he suffered two devastating losses in two years.
Belfast boy Jai Clarke, 10, was blown away when his musical idol DJ Shugz - aka Christopher Kirkpatrick - turned up with the surprise of a lifetime on Christmas Eve.
Christmas is a tough time for the schoolboy who lost both his baby brother and grandad in the spaceof just two years.
Mum Louise Lynn wasn't expecting when she emailed the DJ's agency to ask if he would sign a poster for her son that he would go one step further and arrange to meet Jai in person, reports Belfast Live. .
Jai's baby brother Shea passed away when he was just four weeks old from an infection known as Staphylococcus Aureaus.
Louise, 33, said Jai found his little brother's death tough to deal with as well as the death of his granddad.
She said: "We got Jai a set of decks for his 10th birthday, he's music mad and his idol is Shugz. He's had a tough few years following the sudden death of his baby brother Shea in 2015 and then his granddad, my father, a year later.
"Music has become a therapy for Jai and I just thought I would email Shugz to see if he would sign a poster for him.
"I got an email back from him asking if he could run an idea past me and that he wanted to make the journey down from Belfast to Carrickfergus on Christmas Eve to surprise Jai with a card. I couldn't believe it."
Louise said the look on Jai's face when his idol arrived with a card and t-shirt was priceless.
"When he arrived down Jai was absolutely starstruck, he came in and give him a card a t-shirt and invited him up for a tour of the studio in the New Year.
"It just made my sons Christmas and also highlights the kind heart that one of our homegrown world known DJs has to do something like this.
"Jai has been picked on and poked fun at because his brother is dead, it breaks my heart but what Christopher did was amazing. It's great to see our homegrown talent look after their own."
