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

Blind Irish adventurer Mark Pollock — who was left paralysed when he fell 25ft from a bedroom window while staying with friends in England — has won his battle for damages in the High Court in London.

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.