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Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 December, 2004, 10:50 GMT
Paralysed teenager returns home
Matt King
Matt King was paralysed playing rugby nine months ago
A 17-year-old Bedfordshire rugby player who was paralysed from the neck down after a tackle on the pitch in March has finally left hospital.

Matt King, who had hoped to play professionally for Bedford, was injured when he was playing League Rugby for the London Broncos Under-19s squad.

He broke a bone in his neck and had a heart attack on the pitch.

Doctors had thought the Biggleswade teenager would have to stay in Stoke Mandeville Hospital for two years.

An appeal to help Matt and his family was launched in June and has raised more than £20,000.


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