A 10-year-old boy first learned he had cancer from a stranger who stopped him in the street and congragulated him for being so brave.

David Lally’s parents, Chris and Kelly, took him for tests at hospital after he started feeling sick and suffering from headaches and ‘flickering in his right eye’.

He was diagnosed with three large brain tumours and several smaller ones in December, but his parents they didn’t want to scare him by telling him.

They just said he had ‘little lumps’, but after a passer-by told him ‘you’re doing well fighting cancer mate’, they had no choice but to break the news.

David, from Wallasey, The Wirral, Merseyside, has since undergone chemotherapy and now has scars on his bald head, which his parents say he’s ’embarrassed’ and ‘ashamed’ of.

So in a heartwarming show of solidarity, Chris told him he’d get a tattoo to ‘replicate’ the exact same scars.

He told the Liverpool Echo: ‘We’re in the battle together and I want him to know that. Anything he has to go through, I’ll go through with him.’

Coping with the pain of getting a tattoo on his head was more than worth it after seeing how ‘made-up’ his son was with the final result.

He added: ‘David came with me to watch so I was pulling a face like it didn’t hurt. It took about an hour and the bottom bit stung.

‘He was sitting next to me and he was laughing his head off. He was saying “dad it looks brilliant”.’

Chris thanked artist Zach Roberts for his work at Rockpoint Records – a coffee shop, record store, tattoo parlour, barber, bar and clothing shop rolled into one.

In a Facebook post, he said: ‘It’s the same scar as my son got after his operation. He was ashamed of it so I got the same and now he know it’s not shameful.’

People praised the artist for how realistic the tattoo looked. One person commented: ‘I don’t know you and never had the pleasure to meet you. Ya know what though that’s just brought a tear to my eye.

‘How amazing are you to do that. Such a credit to your son. He will be so proud of you as you are of him. We’ll done. Xx #TOPdad’.

David now must undergo six courses of chemotherapy before a scan will show if the treatment has worked or not.

But Chris says a scan in March after his son’s radiotherapy showed promising results, as ‘only bits’ were left.

In July, the family managed to raise £3,900 for the Owen McVeigh Foundation and Clatterbridge Hospital. Some of the money also went towards gift vouchers for nurses, cleaners and cooks on David’s ward.

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