The baying hounds from the press refused to leave him alone as his own case before the court was prominently featured on the television. Lying in her bed in the private hospital, Paula Harris could hear all the activity around her. In fact, she had been aware of it almost from the start of her ordeal. The trouble was she couldn’t see where she was, and nobody took a blind bit of notice whenever she spoke. It never occurred to her that nobody could hear her because no sound came from her lips. She knew she was in hospital and she knew her bed had been made for she had heard the nurses saying to each other, “Roll her on her side, now lift her this way etc. Under normal circumstances all this effort would make a patient feel a little more comfortable, but, as in Paula’s case, when your body is completely devoid of feeling, nothing at all felt different. This daily ritual was interrupted by the sound of the telephone ringing. Paula heard the voice of Sister Brenda speaking in reply, “Hello, hello, oh it’s you Mr.
