DIY SOS: The Big Build

Adapting the home of a Mildenhall, Suffolk man who was brain-damaged in an attack

In March 2015, football fan Simon Dobbin was at an away game when he was set upon by a gang of men in an unprovoked attack that left him brain damaged, paralysed and unable to walk and talk. After many months in hospital he is finally back at home in Mildenhall, Suffolk, where he receives round-the-clock care from wife Nicole. But the family home is unfit for Simon's care and rehabilitation - so that's where Nick Knowles, designer Laurence Llewelyn- Bowen and the DIY SOS team come in, strengthened by a number of local tradesmen