Hero of the Skies ; the Remarkable Story of a Paratrooper Who Had His Legs Blown Off by a Bomb but Who has Beaten the Terrorists - and the Yobs Who Still Mock His Disability - by Becoming Britain's Skydiving Champ

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WHEN paratrooper Alistair Hodgson was blown up by terrorists he begged a friend to put him out of his misery.

"One leg was gone, the other was just mashed up bone held together with nerves and veins," he says.

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Hero of the Skies ; the Remarkable Story of a Paratrooper Who Had His Legs Blown Off by a Bomb but Who has Beaten the Terrorists - and the Yobs Who Still Mock His Disability - by Becoming Britain's Skydiving Champ

"When the first guy got to me I said, 'Just shoot me. You can't leave me like this'.

"He told me to f*** off and thank God he did. He fetched a paramedic for me, put on tourniquets and saved my life."

That was 17 years ago on the streets of Northern Ireland. Today Alistair is the British National Freestyle Skydiving Champion and in August will make a bid for the wor...

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