PC Kris Aves was mown down by a car driven by terrorist Khalid Masood in March, leaving him with a devastating spinal chord injury
A police officer who was paralysed during the Westminster Bridge attack is to have his home renovated by the cast of TV show DIY SOS.
PC Kris Aves was mown down by a car driven by terrorist Khalid Masood in March, leaving him with a devastating spinal chord injury.
This was in addition to broken legs, numerous head injuries, a lacerated elbow and damage to his sternum and shoulder.
The policeman is still at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire because he is unable to move around his home in East Barnet, reports The Mirror.
But the DIY SOS team will install a lift and widen the doors so they can fit a wheelchair.
PC Aves says he is ‘grateful’ to the team for the help, which will reunite him with his daughter, four, and son, six, as well as his partner Marissa.
He was walking across the bridge with colleagues PC Roger Smith and PC Bradley Bryant on March 22 when they were hit by the 4×4.
The trio were returning from a ceremony to honour officers who deal with public order issues.
The policeman is still at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire because he is unable to move around his home in East Barnet
Nick Knowles on DIY SOS, filmed in Holmfirth, Yorkshire, on February 12 2015
Masood, 52, killed 75-year-old Londoner Leslie Rhodes, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and mother-of-two Aysha Frade, 43, as he hit pedestrians on the bridge.
He then stabbed PC Keith Palmer, 48, to death inside the grounds of Parliament.
PC Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Diplomatic Protection Command and had served on the force for 15 years.
Conservative MP James Cleverly, who served alongside Keith Palmer in the army, said he was ‘heartbroken’ and paid tribute to his friend.
PC Aves says he is ‘grateful’ to the team for the help, which will reunite him with his daughter, four, and son, six, as well as his partner Marissa
The injured included 12 Britons, three French children, two Romanians, four South Koreans and two Greeks.
Also among the casualties were one each from Germany, Poland, Ireland, China, Italy and the United States.
Prime Minister Theresa May was bundled into her car by a plain-clothes police officer and driven quickly from the scene as the attack unfolded.
Scotland Yard quickly said the attack, which came a year to the day after the atrocities in Brussels, was being treated ‘as an Islamic-related terrorism’.
Speaking after the attack, Prime Minister Theresa May vowed Britain would ‘never give in to terror’ and ‘defeat hate and evil’ after she blasted the ‘sick and depraved’ attack.
She added the ‘forces of evil would never drive Britain apart’ and praised police and security staff who ‘ran towards danger even as they encouraged others to move away’.
Prime Minister Theresa May was bundled into her car by a plain-clothes police officer and driven quickly from the scene as the attack unfolded. Pictured: The scene near the attack