Heartbreaking first word brain-damaged boy told his mum after pier flip accident

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Heartbreaking first word brain-damaged boy told his mum after pier flip accident

Jack Dolan has astounded doctors with his recovery (Picture: David Dolan/Triangle News) A teenage boy left in a vegetative state after diving from a pier in Kent has managed to speak for the first time in weeks. Jack Dolan, 15, flipped off Stone Pier in the coastal town of Margate and landed face-first into the sea on June 23. Left virtually brain dead by the accident, London doctors told his family the youngster may only have years – or weeks …