Sam Hancock was eight when he fell from his maisonette balcony in Collyhurst. He was fixing his bike when he leant on a broken glass pane and plunged 25ft to the ground.
Miraculously, Sam was left unharmed. The Helly Hansen jacket he was wearing at the time protected him from serious injury. The puffer coat saved his life.
But that brush with death would later lead him down a path of self-destruction – one that would see him drink up to 30 cans of alcohol a day.
