LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 16: Photographer Tom Stoddart photographs former motorcycle stunt man Eddie Kidd for The Variety Club's Hidden Gems Project at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel on August 16, 2011 in London, England. Eddie Kidd suffered serious head and pelvic injuries during a failed motorcycle stunt in 1996. Eddie was paralysed and brain damaged yet completed the London marathon this year in 43 days.
20 December 2012
The estranged wife of paralysed former motorbike stunt hero Eddie Kidd was today accused of beating him.
Samantha Kidd, 44, Kidd’s wife of five years, faces six charges of assault between July and October.
Paralysed and brain-damaged when a stunt went wrong in 1996, Kidd, 53, was awarded an OBE in June. His wife, who recently moved out of their home in Seaford, East Sussex, has been bailed to appear before Brighton magistrates on January 9.
