wool

Ms Gray described how her mother's stone featured a ball of wool and knitting needles, because she loved to knit, as well as a blue tit, because she enjoyed watching the birds in her garden.

The blankets are made from thick wool, with their intricate and colourful patterns each telling a different story of the Basotho people's history.

“We don't think twice. But I'm not trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. I've never been a real referee.”

"Throughout his career Sella made use of his skills in engineering and chemistry that the wool mills and his father had taught him," says Thomson.

Her barrister Richard Herrmann said she had the "wool pulled over her eyes" by Stockton and "did not believe" he was hurting her son.