DIY team to help bridge terror hero PC get back home

THE horrific injuries suffered by the policeman mown down in the Westminster Bridge terror attack have been revealed – as a BBC TV show plans to help him.

PC Kris Aves, 35, has been told he will never walk again.

He suffered two broken legs, numerous head injuries, a lacerated elbow, damage to his left shoulder and sternum, and a crippling spinal cord injury.

Mr Aves, a father-of-two, was one of many people hit by a speeding car driven by Khalid Masood, 52, who also stabbed unarmed PC Keith Palmer, 48, to death before being shot dead near the Palace of Westminster.

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Six months after the attack, in which four pedestrians died and more than 50 were injured, Mr Aves is still living in Aylesbury’s Stoke Mandeville Hospital because he could not cope at his home in East Barnet, North London.

His devastated partner Marissa is looking after Kris’s six-year-old son and daughter aged four.

Mr Aves was caught up in the carnage on Westminster Bridge as he returned home from a police commendation ceremony, where he had been honoured for his exceptional work as a police liaison officer.

Now bosses behind BBC1’s DIY SOS home revamp show are looking for volunteer tradesmen to get Mr Aves back home and reunited with his family. In an appeal put out on social media Appeal... BBC’s Nick, left, will help PC Kris Aves and his family, above. PC Palmer, right sites the BBC1 show’s bosses are seeking to assemble a team of volunteer builders, joiners and electricians led by DIY SOS host Nick Knowles to spend nine days next month gutting and rebuilding Mr Aves’ home. They will make all the doors wide enough for a wheelchair and are even installing a lift so he can get upstairs easily. Any tradesman or building firm willing to help Kris should contact the team at diysosbarnet@bbc.co.uk.