United fan Ed's on the mend after Championship parade fall from tree

Leeds United fan Ed O'Brien says he is doing "very well" after suffering a fall while celebrating the club's Championship title parade.

- by Joe Donnohue

Mr O'Brien fell from a tree in Leeds city centre on May 5 as United fans gathered en masse to celebrate the team's Championship title.

He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with life-threatening injuries, spending a number of days in a coma before waking a week after the accident.

Following the incident, Ed's mum Stacey Barker said in a statement to the YEP: "Last Monday our son, Edward, suffered serious life-threatening injuries as a result of a fall in Millennium Square during the Leeds United winners parade. That evening we were given the worst news a parent could ever hear-that there was a possibility that we'd never take our son home.