Ms Haddock sets marathon record dressed as fish

A woman who completed the London Marathon while dressed as a fish is celebrating setting a new world record.

Sarah Haddock, 42, from Hoo in Kent, completed Sunday's race dressed as a swordfish in under eight hours.

She set a Guinness World Record for the feat while raising money for the charity Spinal Research, four years after her husband was paralysed from the neck down in a freak accident.

"With a name like Haddock, why not make it even more of a challenge to do the London Marathon dressed as a swordfish?," she said.

The clinical support worker, who plans to train to become a physiotherapist, added: "I have sclerosis and just after the 11-mile mark I felt my toe break and so was in agony for the rest of the run.

"It was incredibly emotional but the support I've received has been unreal, and to get a world record on top is wonderful."

Ms Haddock's husband, Paul, sustained his injury after collapsing while on holiday in Greece and landing face-first.

After three weeks, he was flown back to Medway where he remained in hospital for three months, before being transferred to a specialist spinal injury unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire for a further six months.

Ms Haddock said: "It was obviously a huge struggle mentally at first for both of us but once Paul got to Stoke Mandeville and started to make some progress he became so motivated".

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