STRANGER’S DEBT TO RACHELLE

RACHELLE Miller, 36, from Bristol, saved the life of a stranger when he collapsed outside her house – on the very day she had just completed a first-aid course and had been practising CPR on a dummy. The stranger was Lewis Bond and he passed out in his van after coming to Rachelle’s home to collect a fish tank a friend had bought online. Realising his heart had stopped and that he wasn’t breathing, Rachelle started CPR while Lewis’s friend Paul called an ambulance.

Lewis’s heart stopped for an astonishing 24 minutes – and although Rachelle was unable to get it started again, her efforts did help him take gulps of air and her skills kept him alive until paramedics arrived.