A TEENAGER who spent almost four months in hospital after being paralysed in a motorbike accident is back home with his family at long last.

Sam Brain, 17, suffered a broken spine, collapsed lungs, a fractured rib and a fractured foot when he came off his machine on Foulness Island in June, and is now paralysed from the waist down.

Following months of specialised spinal injury care at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Buckinghamshire, Sam is now back at his family home in Doggetts Close, Rochford, much to the joy of mum Adine Hunt, brothers Michael, 19, and Lewis, 11, stepdad Rob Hunt and girlfriend Izzy Doherty, 17.

Mrs Hunt, 46, said: “They told him he had a 15 per cent chance of survival after the accident, so for him to be home less than 14 weeks later is just amazing.”

Despite the family’s relief at having Sam home, the situation is less than ideal, as the teenager has to now sleep in the living room while the family wait for Rochford District Council to find a property with specific disabled adaptations.

Sam is hoping to soon resume his IT apprenticeship with Rayleigh-based company DB Training.