Mum plunged from second floor Airbnb balcony 'while sleepwalking'

42-YEAR-OLD FACES 'LONG ROAD AHEAD' TO RECOVER FROM PARIS ACCIDENT

- By WESLEY HOLMES

A MUM-of-two is facing a long and difficult road to recovery after plunging from the second floor of a Paris Airbnb.

Raina Heverin, 42, fell from the balcony of the room where she was staying during a weekend away on April 26 this year.

She was found badly injured in the courtyard of the building by her horrified brother the next morning, and was rushed to hospital in a serious condition.

Her husband Michael, 45, said: “We think she had some kind of nightmare or sleepwalked, but she fell from the second floor balcony.

"She'd spent the day shopping and bought a new pair of running trainers. The following morning when her brother woke up.

“He went into her room because they had a day of sightseeing planned.

“She wasn’t in, and he thought she must have got up early and gone for a run, which wouldn't have been unusual at all for her. But then he saw her trainers by the door.”

Raina, from Mossley Hill, suffered multiple injuries including a broken arm, a broken hip, and lesions on her brain stem affecting her movement and speech. She remained in a coma in a French hospital for almost a month, finally waking on May 17.

Michael, who flew to Paris to see his wife upon hearing the terrible news, said: “All told, she was in hospital for over two months. We managed to get her back home on June 11, and she was in Whiston Hospital for a week, and then they transferred her to Broadgreen, and she’s still there now.