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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Beth Kirkbride

‘My childhood bullies nearly killed me when they stamped on me – now I’m going to make history’

Lindsay's first physio session after triple surgery - (Collect/PA Real Life)

A woman who almost died after childhood bullies stamped on her stoma is hoping to make fitness history.

Lindsay Bowers, 41, from Southampton, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of nine. She was bullied at school for needing a stoma and suffered a life-threatening attack on a bus that left her in intensive care with a damaged stoma, broken jaw and cracked ribs.

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