Father paralysed after tripping over wall at daughter’s birthday party

Jason was celebrating his daughter Rio’s birthday when he suffered the fall (Picture: Wales News Service)

A father-of-three became paralysed instantly from the neck down after falling over a garden wall at his daughter’s 21st birthday party.

Jason Davies, 56, tumbled over the 3ft wall at his daughter’s birthday bash and hit his head in the freak fall.

Jason, of Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, waited four hours for an ambulance before he spent 10 weeks in hospital.

He and...