Graeme Souness: Butterfly skin girl is the ‘most special human being’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Graeme Souness has praised a brave young girl who inspired him to raise more than £1.2 million for charity as “the most special human being” he has ever met. Speaking on the red carpet at the annual Pride of Scotland Awards in Edinburgh, Souness talked about his friend Isla Grist, a 14-year-old girl who lives with an agonising skin condition, who won the Teenager of Courage award for her bravery and service to charity. She takes me out on every opportunity.” Souness and Isla’s father, Andy, took part in a gruelling 21-mile swim across the English Channel to raise money for Debra, a charity that supports people with Epidermolysis bullosa – the severe skin condition Isla has battled her entire life.