When his four-year-old son asked his daddy how tall he was, former police officer James Simon* pulled out a tape measure, despite knowing full well he was 5ft 9in.
“I remember looking at the reading in disbelief,” he recalls. “It said I was 5ft 6in.”
That was 2007, and the then-31 year old from Staffordshire had recently hurt his back jumping into the sea on a stag do.
