A YOUNG boy who was at risk of losing the use of this fingers after an accident earlier this year has made a full recovery, according to his mum.

Five-year-old Connor Baker from Newport’s Duffryn estate underwent specialist surgery at Swansea's Morriston Hospital after a coil of metal cut through fingers on his right hand in May.

It was not known whether his two middle fingers would fully heal or whether he would be able to go back to school.

But now his mum Joanne Baker says everything is back to normal for the youngster, who is a pupil at Duffryn Infants, and that his fingers have fully healed.

“It’s amazing what the hospital has done, putting it all back to what it was. We’re over the moon.” she said.

“His fingers are fully functional like they were before the accident.”

She said his bandages have been off for the last three weeks and that Connor had returned to school a week and a half before the school term ended.

Back in June the Argus reported that Connor had to be rushed to the Royal Gwent Hospital after he had tugged on a piece of metal on a roundabout at the estate’s Chaffinch Way.

It emerged the piece of metal tore through the ligaments in his middle two fingers, and the artery in his middle finger.

Connor stayed in the Gwent for the night and was taken for specialist surgery at Swansea’s Morriston the next day to have his fingers put back together under general anaesthetic.

It was believed that the coil of metal Connor picked up may have been the kind wrapped around copper piping, and may have been left on the ground following a theft.