Miracle as woman hugs her mum back after abusive ex-boyfriend left her paralysed

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reports.It is not clear if Angel fell from the van accidentally or on purpose as her injuries were so severe she has been unable to give her own account of her ordeal.Angel suffered from severe brain damage in the fall, and her mum Nikki Lynn has cared for her for the past 18 months.Each day her arm would reach around her silent daughter, her hand resting tightly on her back long enough to squeeze every ounce of love she could into the motionless body.For 18 months, all Nikki Lynn could do was clasp her once vivacious, blonde-haired Angel, hoping the depth of her emotion would stir something locked deep inside.

But nothing.Then around two weeks ago, Nikki felt, for the first time, Angel’s right arm reach around her back in return; her hand lightly press her back, then move to stroke her hair.She can only nod when I ask if it felt like a miracle.

She didn’t believe her daughter would ever hug her again.“She just put her hand straight around my back and started tapping me,” recalls 47-year-old Nikki, exhausted and barely believing.“She didn’t hug much before, she was a typical teenager, but she would give you a hug if you were upset.

It’s very special to have that hug now.”Angel Lynn was just 19 when her abusive boyfriend Chay Bowskill, 21, kidnapped her as she walked near her Loughborough home in September 2020, grabbing her in a bear-like grip, forcing her into a van, then driving away with his friend, Rocco Sansome.Her brain injuries were so severe, her parents, Nikki and Paddy, 54, were warned she would die numerous times.