(BBC) – Rupert Johnston had been in a coma for two months after a horrific car crash in February 1997 and was showing no signs of brain activity.
Doctors advised turning off the 18-year-old musician’s life support machine. But his father brought his son’s beloved French horn to his bedside. Rupert, who grew up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, began slowly moving his fingers along the valves in time to a Mozart recording.
“That was our first moment of hope that there was something there,” recalls his younger sister, violinist Izzy Judd, who was 12 at the time. CONTINUE