Luke Humphries shows true colours with classy gesture for bullied teenager

Luke Humphries showed his class as darts’ World No.1 kept his promise to give a bullied teenager a night he will never forget at the latest night of Darts action in Manchester.. Humphries had responded to a fan on after being told about his shocking ordeal.

The 14-year-old from Stockport was pulled out of his school by his parents after two years of bullying, which included a girl in his year group holding a blade of glass to him, while a gang of girls also regularly kicked, punched and spat at him.

There was also a video that circulated online of Alex being assaulted by a group of boys at his school, with one of them sitting on him and hitting his head.

after the story was brought to his attention on social media last month, saying: "I will speak to the PDC this week when in Cardiff and see if we can get him some tickets and a chance to meet all the players in Manchester if that suits? No one likes a bully, hope he’s ok and send him my best wishes."

The former champion was as good as his word as he personally arranged for Alex to meet all the top players at the showpiece in Manchester - including his "favourite player" Luke Littler, with the teenager getting also getting some signed shirts.

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Humphries posted a picture of the pair, saying: "Well it was great meet Alex tonight, got to meet all the players and received a signed shirt of his favourite player! @LukeTheNuke180 he was buzzing! thanks to all the @OfficialPDC players for stepping in to sign shirts and have photos with him too! This is what it’s all about!"

Cool Hand Luke explained why he was so touched by the story last month, saying he could not help everyone who reached out to him but was moved by Alex's story because he wanted to give him "hope".

“There’s some horrible stories over the years of people being bullied and they end up killing themselves or stuff like that, so if you can help someone out in any way physically possible, you just do it. Look, I can’t help everyone out - I get lots of messages from people saying, ‘I’m struggling with my health, can I get tickets?’

“But I’m doing this for a young kid because I don’t want him to think that all people in the world are negative and I want to give him a little bit of hope. Hopefully this is something that he can enjoy, maybe put a smile on his face again, because he’s not going to school at the moment - his mum and dad have take him out - and he’s pretty feeling glum at the moment.

“Maybe some of the bullies are darts fans and they will see him having a great time because money can’t buy this type of thing. I just hope some good comes out of it - I’d rather they didn’t bully him and he didn’t have to go through this.

“But, hopefully, it gives him a bit of hope. We’ll make sure we give him some support and look after him because, obviously, bullies have no place.”

The evening of darts on Thursday saw Humphries beaten by Nathan Aspinall, who won 6-4 in the final to claim his first nightly victory. Humphries will be rueing missed chances after spurning the opportunity to go 4-0 up before Aspinall won the next five legs in a row, eventually securing his win in the 10th leg.