A 28-year-old English man with brain death has woken up when he was going to be disconnected from the machine that kept him alive. James Howard-Jones was the victim of an assault by another young man, Ben Davis, 24, on the night of April 24, 2022 in the city of Cheltenham (England), as reported by the Daily Mail.
The assailant was arrested on May 8 of that same year and sentenced to two years in prison and four months by Judge Martin Picton at the Gloucester Courthouse, after having admitted the assault charges, although alleging unintentionality. Text messages and Internet searches that revealed him could be traced on the mobile phone seized from him.
Following the assault, Howard-Jones was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was declared unconscious for several weeks, during which he underwent emergency operations several times to keep him alive.
During this time, the victim’s family had considered performing organ transplants so that will regain consciousnessbeing transferred to a rehabilitation center when his state of health improved.
The victim’s father, Neil Howard-Jones, told Judge Picton that “for the first few weeks the doctors told them that James’s brain was dead and the best thing we could do was let him die.”
despite having survivedJames, who until the round had been an athlete, will remain with serious consequences physical and mental that will mean constant care for the rest of your life.
According to the prosecutor in the case, Jack Berry, “James is fully aware of his new condition and can realize everything he has lost, also causing severe depression as a consequence.”
