LOVER OF PARALYSED WOMAN DIDN’T REALISE SHE WAS HURT ‘I laughed as she rolled off the bed’

THE former lover of a woman left paralysed after she was “catapulted” from her bed during sex has told the High Court he laughed at her fall – before realising she was seriously hurt.

John Marshall said he saw Claire Busby roll backwards off the bed with her feet in the air “in slow motion”, as she shifted her position while the pair were having sex.

In a witness statement put before the court on Tuesday, the 55-year-old, from Alloa, Scotland, said: “I didn’t see how she landed and at first I laughed, not realising that she had hurt herself.

“I was expecting her to get up and when she didn’t I laughed and said ‘get up’, but she said she’d hurt herself.

“When I got up to look over the end of the bed she was laying on her side with her arm underneath her and I thought that she had hurt her arm.

“She said she could not feel her arms and legs, I thought she was joking and I laughed. She told me again that she had hurt herself and to call an ambulance.”

Ms Busby, 46, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, suffered a serious injury to her spine after falling from the bed in August 2013.

The businesswoman claims the bed was in a “defective state” at the time and is taking legal action against Berkshire Bed Company, trading as Beds Are Uzzz, which supplied it.

Ms Busby told the court on Monday she was kneeling in the middle of the bed and had HURT: Claire Busby just finished performing a sex act when she decided to move position.

She said she then “swung her legs” round from under her to face the top of the bed before laying backwards – at which point, she claims, she was “catapulted” from the bed and landed on her head.

The firm denies liability and is contesting the case.

The hearing continues.