I wasn’t peeping at showering nurses… I was saving a kiddy 30-FOOT PLUNGE PERVERT’S PATHETIC EXCUSE

A MAN broke both legs and shattered his spine after he fell 30ft from a balcony at an accommodation block for student NURSES.

But from his hospital bed in Birmingham last night, Terry Long insisted: “I wasn’t climbing up there to look at nurses undressing – I thought I’d seem a child hanging from a railing.”

The 56- year- old, who has been arrested 43 times for peeping and indecency, groaned: “I’d gone out for a breath of fresh air as it got dark on Wednesday night and found myself, quite by chance, at the rear of the nurses’ accommodation block.

“I looked up, quite by chance – I wasn’t looking in any of the rooms or anything – and saw something move. I thought to myself, ‘ Oh my God! There’s a small child hanging from that balcony – I need to climb up there and rescue it!’

“So without a thought for my own safety, I clambered up to rescue the child. Unfortunately, when I got up there, I found there was no child. It was just a trick of the light.

“Then I happened to look in the window I was level with and there was a nurse – aged about 20 – getting in the shower. Embarrassed, I lost my concentration, slipped and fell. That’s what happened.”

However, authorities are dubious about Terry’s story – not least because he was not wearing trousers when he fell and because he appears to have slipped as his hands were in fact covered in KY sex jelly.

There are suspicions Terry’s excuse may have been inspired by hero Mamoudou Gassama, a migrant from Mali who climbed four storeys up the outside of a Paris apartment block to save a small boy dangling from a balcony. DUBIOUS: Terry Long ( is recovering in hospital after he fell from nurses’ flats INSPIRATION: Hero migrant saves child in Paris drama