Harry’s pride for victorious triple amputee

NEARLY a decade ago, he was lying by the roadside in Afghanistan in such agony he begged a friend to “stick a bullet through my head” to spare him.

This week, Mark Ormrod, Britain’s first triple amputee to survive the conflict, has been honoured by Prince Harry, as he picked up two silver medals in the Invictus Games; the final piece of a decade-long challenge to get his life back on track.

Ormrod, a former Royal Marines commando, said victory at the games was the “last piece of the puzzle” for him, as two of his children joined him and the Prince on the podium.

Competing in indoor rowing, hand cycling and swimming after years of avoiding disabled sports for fear they would be “patronising”, he said: “If I do well,

I’ll feel like I’ve completely taken charge of my injuries and got my life back.”

Prince Harry congratulates Ormrod, who ‘stump-walked’ to the podium as it was ‘too much faffing about to put on my prosthetics’