Bashing victim will always need help, court told
18/4/08
When Lauren Huxley was discharged from intensive care she was so badly injured she was immobile, and a full recovery remains unlikely, a court has been told. Ms Huxley, 21, suffered multiple skull fractures and was on life support for 23 days after being bashed with a pair of metal fibro cutters at her home in Northmead in November 2005. The marketing student, who was 18 at the time, was left to burn in a pool of petrol after her attacker set the house alight. Robert Black Farmer, 39, a construction worker, of Northmead, is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court for attempted murder and arson. Ms Huxley’s rehabilitation doctor, Joseph Gurka, yesterday told the jury she was “minimally responsive” when she was discharged to Westmead Hospital’s brain injury rehabilitation unit from intensive care in December 2005.
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