She’s trying to rebuild life’

THE driver who mowed down ‘right to die’ policeman Paul Briggs is out of jail early.

Our exclusive picture shows Chelsea Rowe Christmas shopping as the tragic PC’s wife Lindsey won a court case to have his life support turned off.

Rowe, 26, got 12 months in July after admitting causing injury by dangerous driving when she veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit the PC as he rode his motorbike to work.

The Gulf War and Northern Ireland veteran has been in a coma ever since the accident the previous summer.

This week Judge Justice Charles ruled he should be allowed to die, but doctors treating him at Walton Centre hospital in Liverpool are appealing, stating there is “potential” for him to improve.

Rowe, pictured in Birkenhead, is now working in a supermarket close to her home. A relative said: “Chelsea is trying rebuild her life.”

Another added: “She feels sympathy for PC Briggs and his family. She will never be the same again – but neither will they.”

The accident happened around 8.30pm in July last year as PC Briggs, 43, was on his way to a night shift for Merseyside Police.

He was thrown from his bike in the collision with Rowe’s car which was in the wrong lane on a flyover. He suffered a bleed on the brain, five fractures to his spine, bruising to both lungs and numerous other severe injuries.

Doctors at Walton Centre say PC Briggs has been “marginally conscious” for the past 18 months.

But an independent specialist has assessed him as being in a “permanent vegetative state”.

After the High Court ruling, Lindsey praised the judge for showing “compassion” and understanding that it was “what Paul would have wanted”.

But she added: “We are hugely disappointed that the decision is to be appealed and that we will be put through yet more heartache. “T “The past 18 months have bee been extremely distressing an and traumatic. We know wew have to try to somehow cope and continue for Paul.

Nervous