A disabled man who starred in an emotional TV documentary about his rare illness has been found dead after driving his electric wheelchair into a lake.
Brave Stuart Wickison, who was diagnosed with degenerative Duchenne muscular dystrophy aged three, was spotted by a child at Shinewater Park, Eastbourne, East Sussex.
The 23-year-old, who starred in the 2007 Channel Five documentary Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Will Never Grow Old, had an illness which meant his body's muscles were slowly shutting down.
His father has said that his son was one of only a few people with the condition to live to 23. He also explained Stuart had suffered from a chest infection when he was 20 which nearly claimed his life.
A disabled man who starred in an emotional TV documentary about his rare illness has been found dead after driving his electric wheelchair into a lake.
Brave Stuart Wickison, who was diagnosed with degenerative Duchenne muscular dystrophy aged three, was spotted by a child at Shinewater Park, Eastbourne, East Sussex.
The 23-year-old, who starred in the 2007 Channel Five documentary Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Will Never Grow Old, had an illness which meant his body's muscles were slowly shutting down.
His father has said that his son was one of only a few people with the condition to live to 23. He also explained Stuart had suffered from a chest infection when he was 20 which nearly claimed his life.
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