Profiles

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Juri

Seven years ago, Juri was hit in the face with a glass bottle outside a night club. As a result the vision in his right eye is impaired.

  • Background

    Juri works as a support worker with disabled people. He is single and lives with flatmates. His ethnic background is White Italian.

  • Age at interview 27
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Jane

    Four years ago, after being involved in a car accident, Jane was diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury.

  • Background

    Jane currently works in retail and is single and lives with flatmates. She is from New Zealand, but decided to move to London after her brain injury. She describes her...

  • Age at interview 34
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Sam

    Sam was injured in a collision with a lorry whilst cycling through London. His spinal cord was damaged and, as a result, he now uses a wheelchair.

  • Background

    Sam works as a strategist for an advertising company. He is single. His ethnic background is Caucasian.

  • Age at interview 29
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Jamie

    Jamie sustained a traumatic brain injury and a spinal injury when he was involved in a road traffic collision.

  • Background

    Jamie used to run his own delivery business, but does not work now. He is single. He has carers who live with him and help him with his daily life....

  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Julie and Corrie

    Wesley (Interview 03), Julie's son and Corrie's brother, sustained a traumatic brain injury when he fell off a moped on holiday in Turkey.

  • Background

    Mother’ Julie is a Senior Day Centre Officer. She is divorced and has two grown-up children, Corrie, 33, and Wesley, 30. Ethnic background’ White British. Daughter’ Corrie is an accountant....

  • Sex/Gender Female
  • John

    He had a spinal cord injury.

  • Background

    At the time of publishing this website, this person was in the process of filing a compensation claim. We cannot display further information until the case has been resolved.

  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Jack

    Jack's leg was amputated and he now uses a prosthetic leg.

  • Background

    At the time of publishing this website, this person was in the process of filing a compensation claim. We cannot display further information until the case has been resolved.

  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Ambrose

    Ambrose broke his ankle for the third time in 2000. He had surgery to reconstruct his foot and ankle. In 2012 he chose to have his leg amputated below the knee after an infection spread throughout the bone in his leg and caused him a great deal of pain.

  • Background

    Ambrose is a research nurse, but was not working at the time of interview. He is single, has four children, aged 26, 23, 20 and 18, and lives alone. He...

  • Age at interview 44
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Louise

    Louise was at a music festival in Spain when it appears she may have fallen from a pylon. She broke bones, sustained a brain injury and thirty-five percent of her body was burned. She does not remember her injury happening.

  • Background

    Louise is a photographer. She is single and lives with flatmates. Ethnic background’ Middle Eastern/English.

  • Age at interview 31
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Wesley

    Wesley had a traumatic brain injury about 12 years ago. He fell off a moped when he was on holiday in Turkey. He was in a coma for several months and when he came round, spent time in a rehabilitation unit. He now has some memory problems.

  • Background

    Wesley is single. He was living with his mum at the time of the interview, but was in the process of looking for a new place. He works as a...

  • Age at interview 30
  • Sex/Gender Male