A war veteran who feared he would never become a dad after being paralysed from the waist down during a fierce firefight with the Taliban is looking forward to Father's Day - with his three daughters.
Tony Williams was 26 when he was shot while serving as a British Army nurse in Afghanistan in 2010. The St Helens man was flown back to the UK and was in a coma for six days as doctors battled to save his life, performing 36 gruelling hours of surgery.
He said: “A bullet hit my left hip, tore through my abdomen, and hit my spine. The pain was excruciating. As a nurse, I knew I was dying.
