Dad gets tattoo to match son’s surgery scar

Josh Marshall supported his son Gabriel after the little boy told him he felt like 'a monster'.

When Gabriel Marshall told his dad Josh he was ashamed of his scar, caused by the removal of a malignant brain tumour, the loving dad wanted to boost his son’s confidence.

In a gesture of profound love, Josh decided to get a tattoo so he could be just like his son.

‘I told him, if people wanted to stare, they could stare at both of us,’ says Josh who has won the #BestBaldDad competition organised by the St Baldrick’s Foundation.

Eight-year-old Gabriel was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare malignant brain tumour in 2015. As for how he feels about his dad’s tattoo, he loves it and says it makes them ‘twins’.