Blind adventurer: Mark Pollock, wins case over fall that paralysed him

Mr Pollock, 39, suffered spinal and brain injuries in the July 2010 accident at the Henley on Thames home of Enda and Madeline Cahill, where he was staying for the Royal Regatta.
Mr Pollock, originally from Co Down but now living in Dublin, restricted his damages claim to the limit of his friends’ insurance policy — £2m (€2.9m) — so that they would not have to pay anything personally, which meant it was a fraction of its full value.