GREAT Ormond Street has at last got a £500 donation it was promised in the memory of a dead schoolgirl.

The children's hospital should have received the cash last year, after donations were collected from shopkeepers in Northumberland Heath in memory of Gemma Rolfe.

Gemma, 12, died two years ago in a hit-and-run accident in Slade Green. The driver was never found.

The money was collected by Amanda Stevens, of Avenue Road, Erith, who claimed to have set up a memorial fund in Gemma's memory.

She even presented Gemma's mother, Janet Ford, with a framed copy of a £500 cheque and a thank-you letter from the hospital.

But the cheque and the letter were a forgery and in June this year Stevens was jailed for four months after pleading guilty, at Bexley Magistrates' Court, to seven charges of theft and to breaching a community punishment order for obtaining money by deception from her own mother-in-law.

After the case ended, a women's magazine paid Mrs Ford for her story and she gave the £500 she received to Great Ormond Street in Gemma's memory.

Mrs Ford said: "I just want all the people who gave money to Stevens to know the hospital has finally got the money it was supposed to get."