A MAN who ‘died’ in a car on the way to the pub says he was brought back to life by a regular who dashed out of the pub to help - not the policeman who appears to taking the credit.
Last week the Chronicle revealed that off-duty PC Sean Benson had been awarded a top national lifesaving honour - a Royal Humane Society resuscitation certificate - for saving the life of a man at the Miners’ Rest at Old Town last bonfire night after being nominated by the police.
But it was Micky McDonald whose life was saved and he says the thanks ought to go to Martin Wintersgill, who was inside the pub enjoying a drink when the commotion began.
“I was out cold, I was dead basically, but it was Martin who did all the work,” said Micky, 69, of Carrington Avenue, Old Town.
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