An aspiring footballer who sustained serious facial injuries after plunging 30ft from a Spanish villa has told how he aims to be back playing football in six months' time.
Tom English, 20, was on holiday on the Spanish island of Tenerife when the accident happened.
He spent ten days on a life support machine in a Tenerife Hospital and remained on a life support machine while he was flown back to the UK by airbus to Romford Hospital.
Speaking from the family home in Colchester with his jaw wired up and steel pins in his leg Mr English, who has had trials for Queens Park Rangers, spoke of his horrific ordeal.
"I was trying to get up but I had landed on my face. I could not move. I remember little bits after that," he said.
Mr English thanked his friend, Tiptree United player Luke Stevenson, 19, who was on holiday with him in Tenerife and raised the alarm after the accident.
"If it wasn't for him I might be dead," he added.
Published Wednesday December 19, 2001
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