Billy whizz

Artist breathes new life into only pic of Old West outlaw The Kid

- BY FRANCES MILLAR

Original picture of Billy

HERE'S Billy the Kid in all his gun-toting, full-colour glory... thanks to a British restorer.

Nick Harris spent weeks working on the only authenticated image of the legendary gunfighter.

He used a high-resolution version of the 1880 photo recorded on metal in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

The original is faint, scratched and so worn Billy's features are almost impossible to make out.

Nick cropped the frame to focus solely on the outlaw's face then rebuilt lost detail using image software Adobe Photoshop.