"We wanted to do something positive from a negative situation," Brent said. "I still visit the hospital and I see the uncertainty that other parents have to go through. It would have been criminal not to contribute to a very worthy cause."The cause is Latch, a voluntary organisation set up to support the special needs of the children's oncology centre in Wales, which will shortly move to a purpose-built unit at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff. The centre, which provides practical and emotional support to families and promotes research into childhood cancer, is dependent on public donations.The highlight of the dinner at the Towers Hotel will be a charity auction, and among the lots are casts of the silver boots worn by Gavin Henson when he kicked Wales to victory over England in Cardiff on 5 February.Cockbain has become accustomed to the dazzling footwork of Henson and Shane Williams, who are fellow Neath-Swansea Ospreys. He'd been treated at Heath Hospital and the staff did a fantastic job Nobody could have done any more.

Toby had a very rare condition and there have only been about five instances of that particular tumour. There is nothing that anybody could have done that would have changed the outcome."It was one of those things, the luck of the draw It seems like we had him for much longer than a year. When I made my debut for Wales he was at the match and he was only six days old He was at the World Cup and had a Welsh jersey. He'd have been a true little Welshman."Toby died three weeks after his first birthday The day of his party was one of the sunniest of the year We had a fire engine, a bouncy castle, the works. Alan Phillips [the team manager] told me to ring my wife as a matter of urgency.

I was on a plane that night but I didn't know a lot about it. Our son Toby had been taken ill and had undergone exploratory brain surgery He had a tumour. A week later he had a 10-hour operation, and as far as anybody was aware it had been successful."He had been doing really well, but then on 17 September he passed away He was a wonderful little boy He was always happy and loved to be around people. "He's no different to Tony Marsh, who has played for France, or the South African boy Stuart Abbott, who plays for England Brent offers something different. He's the only lock in the country who is over 6ft 6in that has the ability to play Test rugby."Hansen went on: "Brent is not called 'disaster' for nothing. He's all shoulders, knees and elbows, an enforcer in the legal sense of the word who scares people and does the dirty work.""Fantastic" is one of Cockbain's favourite words, and the disaster that was to befall him and his family last year was so cruel as almost to suspend belief.