Shot chef back to work in South Africa
18 January 2001
British chef Bill Gallagher, who was shot and paralysed during an attempted car hijacking in South Africa last year, has returned to work.
Working part-time, he has resumed his role as food and beverage director of South Africa's Southern Sun hotel group.
Gallagher returned to South Africa two months ago after completing a rehabilitation course at the Stoke Mandeville hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
He was paralysed after a bullet pierced his shoulder and severed his spinal cord when he was attacked at traffic lights in Johannesburg (Caterer, 16 March 2000, page 5). He was on his way home from work.
Gallagher, who comes from Newcastle, has regained some use of his fingers and hopes eventually to regain partial use of his hands.
