I nearly lost my leg in building collapse horror WATCH VIDEO

A BUILDER'S leg was nearly ripped off when the garage he was demolishing collapsed on top of him.

Former paratrooper Jake Weir had to dig himself out of a huge pile of bricks and concrete after the accident, in which his severed leg was left hanging from his body by only a strand of skin. Days after the accident medics told the 33-year-old he would have to have his leg amputated and Mr Weir braced himself for a lifetime in a wheelchair.

But he was saved by a team of surgeons at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.

Mr Weir said: "I've had flashbacks of that moment, it still haunts me. Honestly, I thought I was gone, I thought that was it."

The exact moment the father-of-one got crushed was caught on video by the man who had commissioned Mr Weir to demolish his garage.

"When I first saw the video it was very difficult to watch," said Mr Weir. "I can't get over what's happened. I've gone from thinking I'm going to lose everything to making a full recovery."

Professor Chris Moran performed a six-hour reconstruction operation on Mr Weir at the QMC. "When I first saw him, his type of injury was as severe as it could be, without having to be amputated," he said.