106-year-old 'has had good life' since being declared dead at 30

A British man has celebrated his 106th birthday, despite being declared dead when he was 30 years old.

106-year-old 'has had good life' since being declared dead at 30

A British man has celebrated his 106th birthday, despite being declared dead when he was 30 years old.

Sam Ledward’s body was wheeled down to the mortuary in 1936 after he fell into such a deep coma following a motorbike crash that doctors thought he had died – but fortunately a porter spotted his “corpse” moving shortly before he was due to be buried.

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