![]() "We would like to reassure customers that incidents of this type are very rare, the health and safety of our customers is of paramount importance to First Choice and we operate the strictest quality standards across all of our hotels. Our legal team is in direct contact with Mr Jarvis solicitors. "As the matter in question is currently subject to a legal process, it would be inappropriate of us to comment any further at this time. If someone comes down the slide head first they will have no chance."ĭes's case is being featured on BBC's Holiday Hit Squad on Thursday night where experts claim the slide is flouting local health and safety standards.Ī spokesperson for First Choice said: "We are sorry to hear about the injuries sustained by Mr Jarvis, whilst he was holidaying at the Wasd Didim Beach Hotel in Turkey in 2012. "It's almost as though someone must be killed before anything will be done. Mr Jarvis' solicitor Nick Harris, of Simpson Millar, said: "It's bordering on madness that despite Des's accident and other similar accidents the slide remains in use. Since his accident, it has also emerged that five other tourists have been injured on the same slide. ![]() I look like Iron Man and I fee my life is now like living in a cage." "I used to love getting out and about and doing exercise and now I cant do anything. "I don't have a sex life anymore and my girlfriend has to work as my virtual career administering antibiotic and washing me. He added: "I have to live in my pyjamas every minute of everyday because I cant put any trousers over the cage. Mr Jarvis has been told he will walk with a limp for the rest of his life - and there is still a chance he could lose his leg. I don't want anyone else to go through this hell." It's just like being in purgatory but with added pain. "I have no life anymore, I can't go out, get dressed, socialise nothing. It's all I have known for 24 years and now its over. "And to add insult to injury, I have been told that I will never be able to go back and do the job I love. "Its disgusting and my life is now is a constant battle against pain and emotion. "I have lost two inches of my height off my right leg as they had to cut all the infected bone away. But all they want to do is sweep it under the carpet. I cant sleep, go out or do anything and I am in constant pain. He said: "I am now a recluse but First Choice couldn't care less. ![]() ![]() Mr Jarvis, of Peterborough, Cambridgshire, said he is "in constant pain" and still hasn't received any compensation from holiday giant First Choice. ![]() He was on holiday with his girlfriend Nikki, 42, and their four children at the Didim Beach Resort in Altinkum, Turkey, when the incident happened. He had to have five operations to fight a bone infection, and surgeons broke it a further three times to insert 18 metal pins and rods.Īs the wound began to heal, he also had to have a cage fitted around the open wound with a metal plate and screws.īut now two years on, the window fitter has been told he will never work again because his right leg is two inches shorter than his left, after having part of his tibia removed. This is the horrific moment a dad-of-two flew off a waterslide and into a swimming pool wall - breaking his leg in six places.ĭes Jarvis, 46, gathered so much speed on the slide he skimmed over the water at the end and crashed into the wall - leaving him with extensive injuries including a gaping hole on his ankle. ![]()
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