A man was left in a coma after falling down a flight of stairs at a bar in Spitalfields in the early hours of Christmas Eve. Kyri Kyriacou has been left unable to move the right-hand side of his body and can not breathe by himself following the “freak accident,” his brother said.
Mr Kyriacou, who is from Walthamstow but now lives in Canada, had been spending some time in London after his sister was diagnosed with cancer. The 49-year-old was catching up with old friends when he missed a step and fell down a “whole flight of concrete stairs” at Be At One in Spitalfields.
He suffered a severe head injury when he fell and needed a life-saving operation to release pressure on his brain. His brother Greg Kyriacou told the Standard: “They say they don’t know the extent of damage to his brain until he responds more. “It’s going to be up to five years that he is going to be like this, which is really upsetting for us.”.
Mr Kyriacou visited the bar himself as he went to pick up his brother’s shoes after the accident. He continued: “The stairs are narrow and they are steep. “When I saw them I wanted to cry. There’s no carpet it’s just hard floor.”. The brother explained that the Met Police had also visited the bar after the accident and had ruled out foul play after seeing CCTV footage of the fall.
