My favorite was Richie Rich. Richie was wildly popular, a brave and generous little fellow with unfathomably wealthy parents.

The inventor of the lovable but imperfect Moomins created the characters and their world as a way of bringing light after the dark days of the second world war.

Judge Tony Moynihan said James had shown "callous disregard" for the "brave little girl". James had a deprived upbringing, having lost his brother to suicide and at times considered suicide himself, ...