Lambrini treat ended with ‘river of blood’
A MotHeR faces a year trapped at home after her Achilles tendon was severed in a freak accident with a bottle of Lambrini.
eve weller, 26, was on her way home with the £2 bottle of perry in a 5p tesco carrier bag when the bag broke and the bottle shattered on the ground.
A chunk of glass sliced into the back of her ankle, through her tendon and down to the bone, leading to a ‘river of blood’.
Surgeons were able to re-attach the fibres but the mum of two is still in agony, has her leg in plaster and can only walk with a zimmer frame.
Now eve, who spent four nights in hospital, is stuck in her third-floor flat because it does not have a lift.
Doctors say it could take a year for the wound to fully heal. eve, a cosmetics saleswoman from Plymouth, said there was nothing else in the ‘inadequate’ plastic bag.
She added: ‘A bag should be strong enough to hold a single bottle. You expect it to at least survive the journey home. they should test for this sort of stuff.’
She had planned to share the Lambrini with her mother, Paula walker, 49, during a movie night in, but the bag broke just after she got off a bus.
‘At first I didn’t even feel it as I just thought, “oh no, I’ve dropped the wine”. then I went to move my foot and I just couldn’t move. I looked down and there was this river of blood.
‘A man stopped to look after me and was trying to keep me conscious while someone rang the ambulance. Initially the hospital thought it was just a really bad cut but they did an X-ray and realised I had cut my Achilles tendon. It was a 100 per cent laceration.
‘A bit of bottle must have bounced up and gone straight in and out. It was unbelievable.’
eve, whose partner Morgan o’Neill, 36, is a council refuse worker, has complained to tesco, which replied with an email expressing shock at the severity of her injury and offering ‘sincere apologies’.
A spokesman for the supermarket chain, which announced earlier this month that it will soon be phasing out 5p bags, said: ‘we take great care to ensure our carrier bags are strong and robust so they safely hold our customers’ shopping. we are investigating Miss weller’s claim.’