A paralyzed man who suffered brain damage in a car crash almost 20 years ago spoke for the first time – and said ‘I Love You' to his devoted mother.

Doctors said Simon Ellis, now 37, would never be able to talk again after suffering two skull fractures in a smash in 1992 when he was just 18-years-old.

But he stunned his mother Diane Franklin, 61, by also wishing her a Merry Christmas from his care home bed.

(READ the story in Daily Mail)