Muay Thai fighter teaches refugees self-defence

A woman from Kent who trains and competes in Muay Thai boxing has taken her skills to Greece where she has been volunteering to empower women living in refugee camps.

Kat Samuelson, who lives near Maidstone, was persuaded by a friend to take up this form of boxing two years ago and immersed herself in a training camp in Phuket in Thailand.

Samuelson, 31, who is also a fitness trainer and performer, says she went on a steep learning curve when she began practising the martial art.

She said: "I was absolutely terrible at it at first. I had come from a fitness background and circus arts and I thought, 'Oh I am quite strong.' I was absolutely humbled. I had no co-ordination, no fitness, nothing."