The Miracle of Angel Lynn: Mom of woman left paralyzed after being kidnapped by BF says she's regaining mobility
LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND: Angel Lynn, 21, suffered a catastrophic brain injury and was left paralyzed, unable to walk or talk, after falling out of a moving van at 60mph while being kidnapped by her boyfriend Chay Bowskill. Angel's mother Nikki recalled the horrifying moment when doctors had warned her she wouldn't survive the night but Angel is now slightly regaining movement.
Following the September 2020 ordeal, Nikki said, "She was really, really badly injured. They said she wouldn't survive the night and that she wasn't going to wake up at all. Now she's getting lots of physio. She's having speech and language therapy." Angel is learning how to swallow again and is regaining movement on the left side of her body.
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The mother told BBC Radio Leicester, "She is learning to swallow and then won't need PEG [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feeding as she doesn't eat." The mother is happy to see Angel's progress and says "she is starting to move her left side very slightly and she's got a communication machine and is communicating in bits but she still gets really tired. It is nice that she understands everything you're saying to her." Nikki is also "really grateful" for the support of the community who have helped to raise more than $180,000 for Angel's care and adapting the family home.
A CCTV camera captured the moment Angel was forced into a van by Bowskill and his accomplice Rocco Sansome, in Rothley, Leicestershire, in September 2020 after an argument. Bowskill was jailed for seven-and-a-half years earlier this year but his sentence was raised to 12 years later. Sansome received 21 months. After Bowskill original sentencing, his mother, Kathy Norris, said she was "devastated" by Angel's life-changing injuries and her "heart goes out to her family." "My son's not a bad boy but he's not a saint," she said. Bowskill's social media reveals him using deadly weapons, and making offensive gestures in every other post.
Angel is currently receiving care at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. Her family cannot wait to take her home in Loughborough but they say they will have to make some extension to their home so it is adaptable for Angel to live with them. Nikki said they will have to make a bedroom for Angel on the ground floor and a caretaker room, change some equipment in the kitchen so they are reachable to Angel, a seating area built so that they can sit together as a family. Angel's family has set up a GoFundMe page to help with the work and hopes they will have enough money left to pay for the specialist medical equipment and long-term rehabilitation Angel will need.