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25 November 2009

The mother of a brain injured soldier has said she wants her son to be allowed to leave the residential rehabilitation unit he is in to live with her at home.

Lance Corporal Martin Edwards, 27, has been at Daniel Yorath House in Garforth, Leeds, since June, but his mother and stepdad would now like to care for him at their home, Armley Today reported.

Mr Edwards was the face of the Poppy Appeal last year and has learned to walk and talk again after sustaining a brain injury from a roadside bomb in Basra in October 2006.

According to the brain injury association Headway traumatic brain injury such as that sustained by Mr Edwards includes complications that can follow from a blow to the head, including damage caused by lack of oxygen and swelling in the brain.

Speaking to Armley Today, Mrs Durcan, 46, said: "He comes home every Sunday and we have coped very well. I can do all his personal care and dressing him and everything that he needs. Martin has got to the point where he doesn't want to do this any more. He just wants to come home and be with his family."

She said that the centre is disputing that the couple will be able to give Mr Edwards the level of care he requires.

A spokeswoman for Daniel Yorath House said no-one is detained at the centre.

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