M1 road rage victim Brock Prime releases unseen footage
SLUMPED in a hospital bed and hooked up to life support, M1 road rage victim Brock Prime managed to toss around a pillow like a rugby ball in newly-released unseen footage. SEE THE VIDEO
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M1 road rage victim Brock Prime has released unseen footage of himself throwing a pillow around and scribbling down notes while hooked up to life support in intensive care.
The 29-year-old was left fighting for life after he was allegedly beaten with a metal bar by three men on the M1 at Yatala in February.
But five months later, Mr Prime has posted video and photos to his Facebook and Instagram pages showing his condition just days after waking from a coma.
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The video shows Mr Prime tossing a pillow back and forth like a rugby ball with a family member while still hooked up to machines in his intensive care bed.
His caption read: “On life support and still killing it #rugbyleague #nearlydead #stillhavingfun”.
In another video, a slumped Mr Prime — unable to talk — scribbles down notes on a board while hospital staff hold in his breathing tube.
“Early days ICU, about five days out of a coma, can’t even lift my head, can’t talk,” he wrote.
Mr Prime was released from hospital in late May and told supporters he was undergoing intense physio therapy every day and has upcoming cranioplasty surgery to put in a new piece of skull.
“Very long road ahead of me. I can’t believe how much everyone’s support helps me every day,” he wrote.
Mr Prime also shared photos of himself in a wheelchair and medical imaging of his skull which showed the sections of his brain which had died or been removed.
“The dark part of my brain on the left side is the part that is either dead or been removed,” he said. “Yay. Crainoplasty surgery eight weeks away, new skull here I come.”
Before the attack, which left him with serious skull fractures and a badly broken leg, Mr Prime was his family’s major bread winner, working six days a week as a concreter following the death of his father, Darren.
“Brock’s been our rock,” his mum Donna told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
Just a day after he woke from a coma, Mr Prime told the Gold Coast Bulletin, via a series of messages, ‘If I don’t make it, please help my family’.
Three men, Ryan Hallifax, 28, Jonathan Lawrence, 26, and Jordan Baklas, 27, have been charged with grievous bodily harm.
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