WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: April Charlesworth, 28, had planned a family catch-up at the Kings Head pub in Suffolk but was rushed to a nearby hospital after a portable heater exploded.
A mum who was left fighting for her life after an explosion at a pub says she has been having flashbacks and panic attacks after waking up from an induced coma four days after the incident. Former Philip Morant School and Colchester Institute student April Charlesworth was out celebrating her 28th birthday with cousin Ashleigh when the explosion took place in the outside space at the King’s Head pub in Great Cornard, on Saturday, April 24. April was rushed to Bury St Edmunds Hospital before being put to sleep and transferred to Queen Victoria Hospital in London. She was put on a ventilator and woke up four days later with serious burns to her neck, hands and face.