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Friends think we’re a ‘lovely, boring’ couple but we’re both having sex with other people & it saved our marriage
STRAIGHT-laced Sophie and Tom Cooper say their adventurous bedroom antics would shock their neighbours, but insist this is what keeps them together.
Handing her neighbour a slice of her famous carrot cake from the church’s charity bake stand, Sophie Cooper smiles.
She feels a surge of happiness at the cosiness of her steady, provincial life and grins proudly at husband Tom by her side.
Neighbours call them “the perfect couple”, known for always holding hands, spending weekends fundraising for the church and evenings watching history programmes.
In fact, she overheard an acquaintance whisper, “They are so lovely, if a little boring”.
Sophie laughed — she is in the throes of a lust-fuelled extramarital affair, and Tom is bedding other women.
I’ve been having an affair for five months while Tom sleeps with other women
Sophie
Children’s nurse Sophie says: “The parishioners would be horrified if they discovered the secret behind our successful marriage.
“I’m very happy that everyone thinks I’m a Stepford wife, but I’ve been having an affair with a 30-year-old for five months — while my husband sleeps with other women, too.
“It has saved our marriage.”
Sophie, 35, is not alone, with a YouGov study finding that one in five Brits admits to an affair.
She says: “When I met Tom on a dating app ten years ago, I was so in love I never imagined anything like this would happen to us.
Fiery sex
“Tom is quiet and very good-looking and I was instantly drawn to him. I was also attracted to the security that being in a relationship with this kind of man offered.
“He is the same age as me and we became best friends, soon seeing each other daily, and 18 months later moved into a beautiful house.”
Despite building the comfortable routine Sophie craved, she realised there was no passion.
She says: “We had good sex the first few times, but I wanted the intensity of a fiery sex life, as I’m very emotional.
“Tom is logical and methodical — he’s an architect and makes Lego models in his spare time — but isn’t the type to seduce you into bed.
“I tried to ignore the fact that, four months in, sex had gone down to once a month.
“Two years in, our friendship and the life we shared was fulfilling, but I found the passionate side of our relationship trying.
“I could also tell Tom was dissatisfied as he would gladly have sex two or three times a week.
“But I need romantic dates to get me in the mood. Tom’s idea of a date was a trip to a train museum followed by McDonald’s.”
Despite sex being off kilter, Tom was keen to settle down.
Sophie says: “After five years I came home after a nightshift and Tom sent our dog, Charlie, over with a diamond ring attached to his collar.
“Saying ‘yes’ to the proposal, I knew I was signing up to a life of no passion, but it was more important to me to have the security I felt marriage would bring. But days before we married in July 2022, I panicked that I couldn’t handle a life of missionary-style sex once a month.
“I blurted out, ‘Would you forgive me if I had an affair?’.
“He thought carefully about it, before saying, ‘Yes, but I couldn’t forgive you for lying’.
“I was so upset as I’d wanted him to say he’d be devastated. I started to worry that he didn’t fancy me at all.
“We never spoke about it again and, two weeks later, we had a beautiful wedding.”
After the big day, things felt flatter than ever.
“We were more flatmates than newlyweds,” Sophie laments.
“Tom has a higher sex drive than me, and I know we weren’t having as much sex as he needed. I’m told that I’m a good-looking woman, but I need to feel desired.
“In January 2023, six months had gone by and I couldn’t be intimate as I felt he didn’t desire me. I thought about having an affair, but couldn’t bear the thought of lying. So I decided to speak to Tom. I told him, ‘I need more than you can give me. I want to see other people’.
“He was shocked, but was there for me. He offered, ‘Maybe this is something that could work for both of us?’.
“He explained he wanted more sex, that I wanted more romance, but we can’t give that to each other.
“We chatted into the night, working out ground rules that included never bringing anyone home, and not telling each other details afterwards.
“We signed up for dating apps the next day and, within a week, Tom met someone. I felt relieved he might meet someone who could satisfy his sex drive. Since then, he’s casually hooked up with a few women.
“I wanted to find someone unhappy in their marriage and wanting romance, so I signed up for Illicit Encounters, that only caters for married people.
“I started chatting to an accountant, Rob, who is 40, and after two weeks we arranged to meet in a town two hours away. Tom was happy for me, but he did make me send him a picture of the man and his number for safety reasons.
“I enjoyed being wined and dined, before having an amazing romp in a hotel room. The sex felt so natural.
“I had a passion-fuelled three months with Rob, and got to cuddle up to my lovely husband at night. I never wanted to leave Tom. I love my husband and know marriage isn’t just about passion.
“Rob lived hours away and it petered out. In October last year, I started seeing another married man, Josh.
“We see each other fortnightly, he treats me like a princess and then we make love in a hotel room. It’s made my marriage stronger than ever. Tom and I talk more, but I don’t need to put him under pressure to make me feel sexy — I get that need fulfilled elsewhere.
I don’t see us divorcing, but can’t see us giving up sleeping with other people
Sophie
“We don’t feel under pressure, so when we do sleep together every few weeks, it’s much better than it was.
“I don’t ever see us divorcing, but can’t see us giving up sleeping with other people.
“Our friends and family would be horrified if they knew. They see us as completely straight-laced, even poking fun at Tom for his boring hobbies. It’s exciting that we have our saucy secret.
“After we have enjoyed the hikes in the countryside that our family giggle at for being so boring, we’ll spend the evening having sex with other people. The old ladies at church would be horrified.
“When colleagues ask what I’ve been up to over the weekend, I relish making up a story about watching a TV drama together, knowing that I’ve been ravished by a man who isn’t my husband.
“My future is with Tom. We don’t have children, but we hope it’s on the cards soon.
“We have the kind of relationship that would be a wonderful basis for a family unit. I don’t think there’s anything wrong carrying on as we are.”
RTE Fair City viewers all left saying same thing as Fergal reconnects with his sibling and leaves Jacinta worried
RTE Fair City viewers were all left saying the same thing as Fergal reconnected with his sibling which worried his mum.
On tonight’s show, Fergal is surprised to hear from his twin Aoife.
During a clashed nail appointment, Dearbhla tried to rise above Jacinta’s continuous sniping.
Fergal told Gar that Dearbhla will prevent him from meeting single women at the wedding, but Gar dismissed his concerns.
After slipping away early from the wedding, Gar and Dearbhla wound up sleeping together.
And Fergal was surprised to hear from his twin, Aoife.
Her surprise return left Jacinta certain that Aoife’s visit would spell trouble, but Fergal was more optimistic.
RTE viewers took to social media to express their views after Fergal told his mum about his twin getting in contact.
Sinead said: “Yeeeew Fergalina is on the way.”
One viewer said: “Mini Jacinta en route.”
Ciara tweeted: “Aoife will be Fergal in a wig.”
Thomas added: “Another of Jacintas mob. Hope she is like her.”
Another viewer remarked: “Oh god there is two of Fergal.”
Later on tonight’s episode, Nikki unwittingly revealed to Nina that Zak owns McCoys and is Olivia’s brother.
Meanwhile, J.J. pressured Pete to make a quick sale on the car and pinpointed Hughie as a potential buyer.
SNEAKING AROUND
And a scheming Nina tricks Gwen into meeting her.
Later, Nina slipped into McCoys while Gwen was out and finagled her way upstairs posing as a friend of Sash’s.
Paul spotted an opportunity when Pete failed to hook Hughie into buying the vintage car. Gwen caught Nina snooping in Sash’s flat and as she is sending a text to Zak impersonating Gwen.
Gwen managed to intercept Zak’s reply but Nina vowed to keep digging.
Paul bigged up the vintage car and got Hughie on the hook, however he made Paul realise the car is more likely to sell through the garage.
OFFLOADED
Paul then convinced Pete to agree to a temporary ceasefire to lock in Hughie.
And Sash learned about Nina’s scheming and vowed to take her down herself.
Elsewhere in Carraigstown, Kira went over Maxine’s head in a attempt to enlist Emma to help maximise the Rafferty sponsorship.
Kira went out for the day with her new ‘client’ Nikki. Kira was out of pocket after a brazen Nikki lied that she didn’t know their shopping spree was a business arrangement.
Nikki’s antics threatened to destroy Kira’s established relationships with fashion brands.
Nikki was left reeling when she learned Nina’s real identity.
Holly’s tougher than she looks… don’t be fooled by exterior, says Bear Grylls as he reveals grit ahead of Bear Hunt
HE has endured the world’s harshest environments, but as Bear Grylls launches his new adventure series, he insists the real survival expert is his co-star Holly Willoughby.
Celebrity Bear Hunt saw the 43-year-old mum jet out to film in Costa Rica — a country notorious for its hijackings, executions and drug gangs — just weeks after discovering that she had been the target of a kidnap, rape and murder plot here in the UK.
While making the eight-parter, which starts on Netflix next week, ex-SAS trooper Bear, 50, says he discovered an inner steel that belies Holly’s girl-next-door TV image.
He said: “I’ve learned over this show that she is much smarter, savvier, tougher than she looks — and do not be fooled by that nice exterior. I’m not, and I tell her this often.
“Holly always says, ‘I would be terrible if I was a contestant. I’d die. I’d just sit in a bush and cry’. But I’m suspicious of that.
“Holly is also dreamy and so easy to work with. Non-ego. You know, I knew we were going to be in the jungle.
“I knew it was going to be a tough environment, and I needed somebody with real grace.”
Despite heading into such a hostile location to make Bear Hunt, Holly insists she just had to get on with her “business’ as a TV host.
That was despite her kidnap threat ordeal, which forced her to quit ITV’s This Morning after 14 years in October 2023.
‘Nothing can prepare you’
This weekend, she broke her long silence on the plot, which saw 37-year-old security guard Gavin Plumb sentenced to life with a 16-year minimum term last year.
Talking about the year from hell she endured after discovering his chilling plan, mother-of-three Holly said: “It’s been a tough one — there’s no way of sugar-coating it.
“Nothing can prepare you for something like that. When something like that happens, you have a decision to make.
“You either decide, ‘Right, I can take this on board and it can absolutely affect all aspects of my life’. Or I can make a choice to go, ‘Let’s focus on everything that’s positive and good — all those important things.’
“I’m healthy and I’m happy. I’ve got a wonderful husband and children and family, I’ve got great friends.
“You have to say, ‘I choose to move forward positively’ then rely on all those people — the police, the court, the judge, the jury, all those people — to do their role. And that’s what I had to do.”
Asked if she feared the experience might consume her, she said: “No. It wasn’t an option.
“For me, it’s just not an option. For all those reasons I’ve said. That all means too much to me, to let that be the other road I could have gone down.
“And so many people go through tough things. They just do.
“I mean, every single person I speak to — and it seems more and more are currently going through something . . .”
It was this empathy that Bear says also made Holly invaluable on Celebrity Bear Hunt, which sees a dozen famous faces “hunted” through a section of the deadly Costa Rican jungle dubbed the Bear Pit.
It is a tough challenge, and Holly’s role was not only to present the action, as she did on This Morning and is currently doing as co-host of ITV’s Dancing On Ice.
It was also to be there for the celebrities when they returned to camp, sometimes traumatised and injured by their ordeal in the wild.
Bear said: “I think Holly is a really good ear for them. She’s like, ‘Oh, come and have a cup of tea’, and I’m like, ‘No — they need to learn this knot.
“Sort it out. We’ll see them in the Bear Pit tomorrow. And then we can be nice’. Yeah. So there’s a good- cop, bad-cop thing going on.
“It’s a high-pressure environment for them back in there. They come out of the Pit exhausted.”
Bear added: “I’m nice 90 per cent of the time — in the Bear Pit occasionally I’m a little nastier.”
The star insists that his experience filming Bear Hunt with Holly only confirmed what he has learned through a career spent in the wildest parts of the globe. He says: “You can’t judge a book by its cover.”
It was hammered home to him by the celebrities on the show, who included Strictly’s Shirley Ballas, model Lottie Moss, singer Una Healy and TV chef Big Zuu.
Holly is also dreamy and so easy to work with. Non-ego. You know, I knew we were going to be in the jungle
Bear Grylls
Bear said: “Just because you think somebody’s a bit older or, you know, heavier . . . the wild’s not like that. It’s all about spirit, and unlikely heroes emerge. I mean Shirley, you know, she’s showing them all.
“Lottie, you think she’d be maybe ‘just a model’, but she is super- focused. I would call her ‘just a model’ at your peril!
“She is really delivering and has that warrior look, which is great.
“It’s the same with Una, actually. She’s like, ‘I’m done with being nice — it’s time in that Pit to get ruthless’. That’s her own words.
“And I go, ‘Yeah, you don’t wanna live all your life like that, but there’ll come a time when somebody treats you wrong. You need a little bit of that edge in life’.
“So I like the reflection to life through these sort of shows.”
If it sounds a little similar to ITV’s I’m A Celebrity, then be prepared for a surprise because the challenges go way beyond eating animal private parts or coming face to face with gunge and creepy crawlies.
Though the celebs live in a camp and have to navigate the personalities of their co-stars, in this show the participants are essentially prey.
‘We all have primal side’
Bear said: “We’ve never done a show hunting people down. It definitely has an edge to it.
“But also it’s a big, big production to do because it’s a huge area to try to run this thing in.
“You’ve got explosions, you’ve got nets, you’ve got celebrities, you’ve got jungle, you’ve got wildlife. There’s an awful lot of moving parts.
“But I love it. I love doing shows that build people up. I don’t want it to be like a ‘We’re out just to beat you’.
“I wanted this to be an amazing experience for these guys.
“And from day one, the celebrities are totally into it. Like, ‘I want to learn this stuff — I want to become good at this’.
“And I think we all have a bit of a primal side where we want to be good at this stuff.
“I get a kick out of training them and putting them through the actual Bear Pit stuff that’s a little harder and more intense.
“But it’s pressure, testing this sort of stuff for real in that environment — it’s intimidating.
“You can talk about camouflage and tracking skills and survival skills and adventure skills and knots and shelters. But actually, putting it all together, where your survival depends on it, while under pressure . . . it’s pretty intense.
We’ve never done a show hunting people down. It definitely has an edge to it
Bear Grylls
“I’ve never done a show like this before, but I’m proud of it and it’s taken a really good team to help me put it together. It’s going to be tough and it’s going to be gritty.
“It’s going to have a gnarly feel to it and people are going to be intimidated and scared in the Pit.
“But ultimately I want them to come out, eyes shining bright.
“Those that still make it are super-proud of what they’ve done, and those that don’t give 100 per cent and don’t have it will naturally fall by the wayside.
“Cream tends to rise to the top. And I love seeing that at the end.”
- Celebrity Bear Hunt starts on Netflix on February 5.
TV host Steph McGovern
I WANTED to do this because I have a four-year-old daughter who I want to grow into a strong woman, and I think this will show her that her mum is strong.
I like to push myself out of my comfort zone every so often.
Ted Lasso actor Kola Bokinni
I’VE done Marine training. I flew in helicopters at night. I’ve done things that are quite challenging.
The unknown is exciting and nerve-racking. I want to dive into it and see where I get to just so, at the end, I can be proud of myself.
Strictly judge Shirley Ballas
MY son said to me, ‘Don’t think about being competitive.’ But that’s who I am.
I’ve climbed Kilimanjaro, I’ve jumped out of aeroplanes and, while I get a bit nervous inside, fear is not something I show.
Designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
EVERYONE assumes I’m going to be a terrible ponce, but I’m a lot harder than I look.
I assumed I’d get some kind of Roger Moore safari suit. I didn’t know I’d be in Velcro, for God’s sake!
Model Leomie Anderson
PEOPLE have this perception of what a model is capable of. They think we only care about how we look and we’re not smart.
I want to shatter those stereotypes. And also, to do it for my dad, who passed away two Christmases ago.
Ex-Rugby Player Danny Cipriani
PRIOR to this, my biggest challenge was probably my rugby. Going into a sport and facing the spotlight while continuing to learn about myself.
I feel that’s been my biggest journey and, at 36, I feel like I’m starting life again.
Model Lottie Moss
MY mum and dad think I’m crazy for doing this, and my friends are excited for me. They believe in me, which is nice.
My mum said, ‘I’ll see you at the end as you’re 100 per cent going to win’. But I don’t know what to expect.
Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas
I’M not a team leader – I don’t want conflict. I want everyone to be getting along and having a laugh and I’m going to be like a willing foot soldier.
I’m going to try to make sure everyone is happy and to be there for people.
Spice Girl Mel B
I HAVE been with the Spice Girls for longer than I can remember! We all have roles.
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you’re in the middle. I’ve played all different roles over 30 years. I think I’ll bring that to the dynamic.
TV chef Big Zuu
I HATE losing. I have to win! Otherwise, there’s no point. I feel like mentally I’m a very strong person.
I always say I’m a big character. My big energy normally leads to me being in charge and if I’m not, I’m going to have something to say!
Singer Una Healy
I’M the kind of person that loves being given an itinerary. Even being in The Saturdays, I loved being told what we were doing the next day.
After being in a girl group, I am very much used to working as part of a team.
Wimbledon star Boris Becker
I’M one of the oldest participants, so I’ve had a very intense and public life. I’ve had unbelievable moments and really bad moments.
In hindsight, I’m glad I’ve had all these experiences. It makes me humble . . . and wiser.
Alan Carr reveals he’s losing his sight and needs terrifying procedure amid health scare
ALAN Carr has revealed he had a terrifying ‘health scare’ resulting in his eyeballs needing draining, amid fears he is losing his sight.
The bespectacled comic had his eyes examined by Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
He also endured the “surreal” experience of a “spike” being driven into his anesthetised eyeball.
Alan, 48, was speaking to comedian Grace Campbell on the new episode of his Life’s A Beach podcast, which is out tomorrow.
He revealed: “I’ve got astigmatism – I kept telling people I had stigmata, like the wounds of Christ. Get over yourself, Alan.
“I had a bit of a health scare. I went to Moorfields [eye hospital]. I’ve got something wrong with my eyes – quite a bit of pressure.
“I hate the glaucoma thing, when they squirt the air in your eyes.
“I had something wrong with my eyes in the cornea. I was so worried.”
Alan added: “He had to basically choke me because this air going into my eye was too much.
“At Moorfields they anaesthetised my eyeball, and then the spike came in on to the lens to see if it worked.
“They said: ‘Just relax Alan, and just concentrate on the spike going into your eye.’ I’m like excuse me? What? Oh good, the spike is coming closer. Relax!
“It was so surreal. Losing my sight is my worst thing, and I can feel it getting worse.
“My eyeballs need draining – they’ve got too much pressure.”
Last year, his comedy series Changing Ends received a huge update regarding its future.
Penned by Alan, it is based on his own life growing up in the Midlands in the Eighties as the gay son of a Fourth Division football manager.
He had hoped the show would be Northampton’s answer to smash hit The Crown.
The Sun revealed how ITV had ordered not just one, but two more series.
New storylines will see the action move into the Nineties as Young Alan heads into his teens.
Astigamatism - what is it and how does it develop?
What is astigmatism?
Astigmatism is when the eye isn’t perfectly round like a football but more like a rugby ball shape, which can lead to blurred vision.
This means that light from an object does not focus exactly on the retina, but at two separate points.
Lateef Iqbal BSc, an optometrist at Specsavers in Surrey, said: “It’s something you’re usually born with although it can develop later on in life due to changes related to age.
“Astigmatism can develop after an eye injury, eye surgery or an eye disease – you’re also more likely to have it if you’re short or long-sighted.
“In more developed cases, or without treatment, symptoms can include headaches, having to squint, eye strain or tiredness when focusing.
“Astigmatism can be detected during a routine eye test and can be easily corrected with glasses, contact lenses or surgery.”
Types of astigmatism
There are two types of astigmatism, regular and irregular.
Irregular astigmatism is often caused by a corneal scar or “scattering” in the eye’s crystalline lens.
While this type of astigmatism can’t be corrected by standard prescription lenses, it may be corrected by contact lenses or, in minor cases, by laser eye surgery.
Regular astigmatism, arising from either the cornea or crystalline lens, can be corrected by a toric lens.
Alan said at the time: “To get your own sitcom recommissioned for a series is the most wonderful news ever, but to have TWO series recommissioned is utterly mind-blowing and such a huge compliment, which I do not take lightly
“I know how much this show has resonated with viewers and I promise I won’t let you down — and for someone whose actual life at times feels like a sitcom, believe me there are more tales to be told.
“Two series commissioned, eh?
“My dream of Changing Ends becoming Northampton’s answer to The Crown is two steps closer to being a reality.”
Мексика відмовилась приймати рейс із депортованими мігрантами з США
Мексика відхилила прохання адміністрації президента США Дональда Трампа на дозвіл військовому літаку США, який депортує мігрантів, приземлитися в країні. Про це пише Reuters з посиланням на представників США та Мексики, підтверджуючи інформацію, яку раніше оприлюднило видання NBC News. Повідомляється, що військові літаки США здійснили в п’ятницю два схожі рейси, на борту яких перебувало майже 80 мігрантами в кожному з Гватемали. Однак уряд […]Brit medic reveals horrors of Ukraine frontline and admits he’s also taken lives while helping wounded during brutal war
“What the f*** am I doing here? Why am I doing this?” the former NHS care assistant cursed as he was shaken awake by four huge explosions on Ukraine’s frontline.
Moments later as smoke and falling debris cleared, a cacophony of sirens, car alarms and cries from wounded soldiers and civilians filled the air.
It was a sound all too familiar to the 25-year-old medic from south east England honoured with a special nickname by comrades for saving lives for nearly three years in the trenches.
It was time for “Doc Brit” to conquer his fear yet again and go to work.
The bespectacled young hero – who we cannot identify – was an NHS healthcare assistant working on hospital wards when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, 2022.
Watching Vladimir Putin’s forces’ brutal invasion on TV news, he suddenly felt compelled to help Ukraine and volunteered to join a humanitarian convoy heading to Kyiv.
Former Army cadet “Doc” – whose dad was an SAS medic and mum was an army truck driver – volunteered to become a frontline paramedic
And after nearly three years of carnage that followed, he revealed he has both saved – and taken – lives as a medic and rifleman at the sharp end of Vladimir Putin’s war.
He told The Sun: “I’m primarily a combat paramedic now but Ukraine is so short of soldiers I take part in assaults as well.
“I’m from a big military family and was in the Army Cadets from the age of 10-18, where I learned to handle weapons.
“I now carry an M4 assault rifle or a Kalashnikov into battles and open fire when I have to.
“I can’t be sure that I’ve ever actually killed a Russian but it’s very likely that I have during firefights.
“It’s not something I want to do but in those situations it’s ‘us of them’ – I’ve opened fire on undergrowth where they’re shooting from and kept firing till they stopped.
“But there’s no time to stop and do body counts – you have to keep moving forward if you can.”
Doc joined forces with two other Brit volunteer medics in Ukraine at the start of the war and stayed on after his pals both decided to return to the safety of their old lives.
I’m needed here much more than the NHS needs me back home
The doctor
But he has since forged close links with a battle-hardened group of foreign fighters dubbed The Chosen Company, who specialise in assaulting Russian trenches.
The unit – comprising Britons, Americans, Australians and recruits from across Europe – has posted graphic video of bloody firefights.
And Doc admitted he has come to question why he has fought on after losing six pals – including his best friend – in the continuing “meat grinder” carnage.
He told The Sun: “There’s not a day I don’t ask myself: ‘Why don’t I just go home and watch all of this on my phone or the telly like everyone else?’
“But then I realise I’m needed here much more than the NHS needs me back home.
“It’s been painful losing so many close friends over the past couple of years – three were killed by Russian drones, two by mortars and another was captured and executed.
“My best mate was an ex-US Marines machine gunner called Lance who was killed by a drone last year…he was 28.
“We bonded because we shared the same sense of humour and kept smiling through so many close shaves – but he got unlucky and his time was up.
“It’s a risk we all run out here but if we don’t fight, who else will hold the line against the Russians?”
Doc reckons he has saved dozens of lives treating battlefield trauma wounds under fire.
He said: “I’m always extra cautious going into battle because I know that if I get hit I won’t be able to treat anyone else – and may not be able to treat myself.
“I can never be sure whether my seriously wounded casualties make it – my job is to stabilise them before they’re evacuated to a field hospital.
I ran towards the wounded and found a soldier sitting upright with his right leg missing from above the knee – it was lying about ten feet away from him
The doctor
“But I’ve treated so many battlefield casualties I’d like to think I’ve saved dozens of lives in the time I’ve been here.
“I’ve treated soldiers but also a lot of civilians – the Russians don’t care who they kill.”
Doc has witnessed unimaginable horrors with both the Chosen Company and his previous unit, a volunteer battalion of Ukraine’s 49th Infantry Brigade dubbed “The Suicide Squad.”
But his worst single mass casualty event was an attack in the Kharkiv region town of Barvinkove early in the war – when four Russian bombs tore into a busy street.
He said: “I was about 300 metres away when four huge explosions erupted and knew it was very bad.
“It’s hard to imagine the chaos until you see it – smoke, flames, people with terrible wounds crying out and body parts everywhere.
“I ran towards the wounded and found a soldier sitting upright with his right leg missing from above the knee – it was lying about ten feet away from him.
“He was silent and in shock and I knew he would bleed to death if I didn’t act quickly so I applied a tourniquet and ran on to the next casualty.
“The second man I got to had been peppered with shrapnel and was in agony with deep holes up one side of his body – I packed his wounds then ran on to the next…
“That was a guy with horrendous burns to his face and chest – it was like a horror movie.”
Doc said he applied six or seven life-saving tourniquets that day as he dashed among dead and dying trying to prioritise scores of casualties.
But nothing could prepare him for the sight of one man he found amid the bloodbath who’d had half his face blown off.
Doc said: “I’m obviously not squeamish and have seen a lot of terrible things out here.
We can’t let the Russians win
The doctor
“But I’ve always had a strange phobia about treating eyes – I would ask someone else to give people eye drops when I was working in the NHS.
“So it was my worst nightmare when I came across this poor man with half of his face gone and his eye ball hanging down
“It was obviously a shocking thing to see but I tried hard not to show it and comfort him and tell him he was going to be ok.
“I could only bandage him as best as I could then move on – but I still wonder how he’s getting on and what he might look like now.”
Brave Doc pledged to steel himself and stay on and fight for Ukraine for “as long as it takes” yesterday.
He said: “I’m not one of those people who can sit back home in the UK watching Ukraine war videos on their phones.
I don’t want to be the guy who sits on the sidelines and does nothing when terrible things are happening – you have to make things change.
“And we can’t let the Russians win.”
