Publisher's Synopsis
This is the moving account of the relationship between Vanessa Perkins and PC Philip Olds, the police officer who was shot and paralyzed while tackling an armed robber and whose struggle to regain a normal existence brought widespread public sympathy. For five and a half years PC Olds battled through his ordeal and was about to marry the girl he loved when he was found dead in bed. Scribbled on the sheet was his suicide note and his apology to Vessa.;In private their love story was stormy from the start. Although close, they fought from the first day of their relationship until the last. On 30th September 1986 Vanessa left Philip for the last time and that night he died from a mixture of alcohol and pain killers.
