We locked the door and barricaded ourselves in with furniture. I grabbed her hand and we ran back to our room. We were trapped on the third floor with no escape route.Īll that mattered was protecting Kelly. It was full of smoke from the gunfire which seemed incessant. I told Kelly what I'd heard and we raced along the corridor to the top of the stairwell to peer down to the foyer three storeys below. In fact, terrorists were already in the hotel shooting staff and guests at random while their fellow conspirators were attacking other Mumbai landmarks. Something terrible was happening but I didn't know what - or how much danger we were in. I rushed to the window and saw a guy ducking behind a car as a second and then a third shot rang out. I grabbed her hand and we ran back to our room' I'd only ever heard shots on TV but I knew instantly this wasn't a car backfiring. A magnificent Edwardian throwback to the colonial era, it's one of the world's most famous hotels.Īfter a spot of sightseeing in Mumbai, we were back in our room changing for dinner when I heard the first gunshot. After two fantastic weeks there, we made the fateful decision to spend our last day in Mumbai.Īnd so, early in the afternoon of Wednesday November 26, we booked into the Taj Hotel. It was November 2008 and we had decided to take a break in Goa. But suddenly everything went into freefall. I can never even enjoy a full sex life nor father children normally. How did I end up like this - paralysed from the waist down, unable to do all the things I once took for granted like getting into the shower?Ĭonfined to a wheelchair, I will never walk again. There are mornings when I look in the mirror and see myself grappling with all the rituals that used to be so simple and the shock hits me anew. Battle: Kelly Doyle and Will Pike were caught up in the Mumbai hotel massacre last year and he had to leap from a third floor window to save their lives
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