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East Lothian mum shares horror of Harry Styles fan landing on her after 35ft drop

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Vincent
AuthorDayna McAlpine
Published date16 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Ann Barr, 57, from Dunbar shared the terrifying details of her ordeal with The Sun, revealing that she had been sat directly below where 20-year-old Dylan Wood plummeted to from the balcony of the Glasgow gig

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Dylan Wood fell from the top tier on Saturday night before being rushed to hospital and put on life support as a precaution.

Ann had been seated directly below in Row J in the stands and and bore the brunt of the impact after the young man fell.

She had risen to her feet to cheer and sing along with Styles' final encore song of the night when she was hit with what felt like "the full force of a car".

She told The Scottish Sun: "It all happened so suddenly, it's only now it is sinking in what happened.

"I felt like I had been hit on the back with the full force of a car.

"My daughter thought somebody had thrown a glass bottle. I looked down and the boy's feet and legs were splayed in front of me.

"You could see the force he fell from, the seats in front of us were mangled. He was staring at us with eyes glazed over and was bleeding from the head.

"My daughter checked that he was breathing and he wasn't."

Ann's nurse...

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