When the dust settled, he looked down and his legs weren't there

When the dust settled, he looked down and his legs weren't there

Five times Mark Ormrod told himself to turn around. Five times his body refused to obey. Then the dust cleared. “As the dust cloud disappeared I looked down to where my legs should have been and I could see that they weren’t there,” the former Royal Marine told a hushed Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury on March 4. More than 200 people had travelled to the Shropshire venue to hear him explain what happened on Christmas Eve 2007, when he became the UK…