Sleepwalking mum plunges 40ft from balcony on holiday leaving her with life-changing brain injury

A SLEEPWALKING mum-of-two plunged 40ft from a balcony while on holiday in Paris, leaving her with a life-changing brain injury. Raina Heverin was left with a bleed on the brain after semi-consciously opening a window and plummeting two storeys into a courtyard. She also suffered a punctured lung, broken hip, arm and ri

Raina Heverin, 44, fell two storeys into a courtyard in the early hours during a Paris holiday sleepwalking accident

Raina Heverin, 44, fell two storeys into a courtyard after opening a window beside a Juliet balcony while sleepwalking. She suffered a bleed on the brain, a punctured lung, a broken hip, arm and ribs and spent three weeks in a coma

“There was a Juliet balcony in the room. I think I was sleepwalking; maybe I was disoriented. I fell out of the window," the mom-of-two said.

Raina Heverin was on holiday with her brother and sister-in-law when she fell two storeys from her balcony

Raina Heverin, 44, fell two storeys into a courtyard when she opened a window beside a Juliet balcony in the early hours of April 26 last year.