He Would Lie Around, Playing With His Phone

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Injured biker now obsessed by sex
By Telegraph Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 02/03/2007

A man who became obsessed with mobile phones and sex after suffering brain damage in a road accident is expected to receive a multi million-pound damages award.

Kunal Karl Lindsay had made a remarkable physical recovery after his motorcycle crash near Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs, in September 2002, said Mr Justice Mackay at the High Court in London.

But he had a personality disorder which made him unemployable and was threatening his three-year marriage to his Australian wife, Susan.

Mrs Lindsay, who lives in Queensland with their son, Jesse, two, said his "sexual harassment" and refusal to attend to personal hygiene made her want to "run away".

The judge said Mr Lindsay, 28, of Pegsdon Way, Pegsdon, Herts, became "obsessed" with sex and would pester his wife daily — sometimes in "pornographic" terms — becoming angry if she declined.

He had no motivation and would lie around, playing with his phone.

The obsession led him to access his favourite game 8,000 times in the past 12 months and his general susceptibility caused him to enter into unwise phone contracts and to want to buy everything he saw.

Lawyers for Mr Lindsay and the insurers of the car driver in the crash, Kenneth Wood, of Ferguson Road, Walkington, Beverley, East Yorks, have agreed damages of £1.2 million. But a dispute over future care has hinged on the question of whether Mr Lindsay can move to Australia.

The judge said the chances of his receiving a visa were only 20 per cent and if this did not happen, the marriage was over because Mrs Lindsay refused to return to Britain.

He assessed the cost of care with his wife in Australia at £29,500, against £100,000 a year by himself in Britain.

The hearing was adjourned.