A BIG welcome home party was held to celebrate a youngster’s miraculous recovery.

About 250 people descended on the Brace of Pistols pub in Clacton, on Sunday to mark Logan Curtis’s successful operation after weeks spent in rehabilitation.

His auntie, Nikita Downes, organised the party, complete with a bouncy castle and special visits from the fire service, police search and rescue dogs and officers from Essex police who arrived in a riot van.

She said: “I started organising this day before his surgery.

“He’s been so positive, he just got on with it all and we’re really happy with how it went.

“When he saw the blue lights of the riot van coming he said ‘’are they for me?’”

Logan, nine, is on the road to recovery after having a hemispherectomy operation which removed half of his brain.

He was diagnosed with with a rare neurological condition called Rasmussen’s encephalitis in 2013.

He had the major operation, the only known cure for the condition, earlier this year.

Logan has defied the odds throughout the years, after contracting and recovering from sepsis three times on top the major surgery.

Mrs Downes said: “Days before the hemispherectomy operation he contracted sepsis, he was incubated in Colchester General Hospital but then he fell into a coma and he was taken to Great Ormond Street where we all stayed with him.

“Because sepsis is so serious, we were told there’s only a one in three chance of surviving sepsis, but that’s not for Logan.

“He’s a fighter, and he survived it three times.”

The day marked Logan’s extraordinary recovery and bravery as before the operation he could have up to 15 seizures a day, which could last up to a minute each.

Mrs Downes said: “It was so much fun, the riot van showed up with the blues and twos on and the police even let him in the back of it.

“Just after the police left the fire and rescue dogs they turned up - he loves animals too.

“The kids were all playing games with the dogs.

Mum Tammy, provided a barbecue as Logan celebrated with his cousins and brothers and sisters, Romany-Blu, two, Mason-Lee, ten, Nicole, 16, Whitney, 19, and Curtis, 23.

Mrs Downes said: “I’m so proud of him, he fights so hard, he’s been so positive and he’s just got on with it.

“He was beaming, I didn’t know he was able to smile like that all day, but he did.

“He was in his element and it was such a happy day.”

Nikita added her special thanks to Coastal Castles who provided the bouncy castle for the day and the Brace and Pistols pub in Bocking’s Elm where the event was held.