A film stuntman who worked on Titanic and Trainspotting has died in a tragic parachuting accident.
Terry Forrestal, 52, of Childrey, near Wantage a former member of the SAS was base-jumping from cliffs while on holiday in Norway.
He had made seven successful jumps, but the eighth went wrong. He jumped from a cliff with a parachute and landed on a ledge on the way down, injuring his legs.
His former fiance Jo McLaren-Clark, 28, said he waited 11 hours to be rescued. He tried to use his reserve parachute to jump the remaining 1,000ft to the ground but the 'chute failed to open in time and he died. Unknown to him, a rescue party was only an hour or two away.
Mr Forrestal was buried at St Mary's Church in Childrey yesterday. Hundreds of film-makers, colleagues, friends and relatives attended.
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