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Bodybuilder dad paralysed for life after freak paddling pool accident in garden

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A dad-of-two has been left paralysed from the neck down following a freak paddling pool accident in a family garden. Simon Cooper lost his footing on water-soaked grass and fell into a shallow children's paddling pool at his sister-in-law's garden in Hampshire, it is understood.

The 41-year-old was immediately pulled out the pool but he had lost consciousness, Wales Online reports. He was taken by ambulance to hospital where he was found to have broken a bone in his neck and severed his spinal cord in the accident on May 29.

His heartbroken family have been told Simon, who has spent 20 years in the British Army, will be paralysed from the neck down for life. "He's such an active guy and he's done a lot in the military, serving in

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