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Paul smashed 28 bones

A DJ who “sleepwalked” off an 80ft balcony says he is “lucky to be alive”.

Paul Cartwright broke 28 bones plunging four storeys from his room in Malta.

The dad-of-two had been on holiday celebrating his 45th birthday with his girlfriend Danielle Hickey when he fell.

His last memory is “having a good read” and smoking a cigarette on the balcony before plummeting onto the concrete below. His fall left him with a after hotel fractured neck, a smashed pelvis, a broken femur and foot, and cracked ribs. Medics also had to remove part of his bowel.

Paul, a DJ on London-based radio station MuusicFM, spent two-and-a-half weeks in an induced coma after the fall.

He finally arrived back in the UK after racking up an air ambulance bill of more than £20,000. His ambition now is to learn how to walk again unaided. Paul, of Downham, south-east London, said: “I was having a good read and that’s all I can remember.

“I was out on holiday with the love of my life and bosh – it could happen to anybody. I’m lucky to be alive.”

He believes his history of sleepwalking caused the freak accident.

The father of twin girls, who turned 10 on the day he landed home, said he was not drunk at the time of the accident.

He added: “I love my girls. I’m happy I’m alive to be a dad to my beautiful daughters.

“They have been my guiding light. I told myself I am not going to die like this and they kept coming into my mindset.”

Paul will spend the next few weeks in hospital and it may take him years to make a full recovery.

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