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A trainee doctor left paralysed when crushed by a man jumping from the top floor of a shopping centre has been hailed as “extraordinary” for drawing solace from having saved his life.

Grace Spence Green, 22, says she feels “no bitterness” towards Amsumana Sillah Trawally, who vaulted a third-floor barrier inside Westfield Stratford and fell from a height of up to 120ft, landing on top of her.

Trawally, 25, survived with a fractured leg, but Ms Green, a climbing enthusiast and instructor, suffered a fractured spine and now uses a wheelchair.

A judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court found Trawally used his body as a “weapon” and was high on drugs. He had spent several hours choosing a spot at the shopping complex to jump from.

Ms Green’s solicitor, Terrence Donovan, today revealed his client takes comfort in the fact that she saved Trawally’s life, and is now focusing on pursuing her medical career.

“She finds it very difficult to talk about him,” he said. “But she has an amazing view that even though she was injured she managed to save a life.

“Even though she was paralysed she accepts the greater good and she still has no bitterness towards him.

“She finds it very difficult to think about what motivated him to do this.”

Ms Green, who studied medicine at King’s College London, was on her way from Maidstone Hospital to teach children at her twice-weekly climbing class when she was struck on October 17 last year, suffering “catastrophic” injuries.

Trawally admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for four years on Friday.

After watching footage of Ms Green talking about the incident, Judge Paul Southern said: “This remarkable young woman spoke without any bitterness about the person responsible for her injuries, being focused instead, to use her own words, on learning how to live a new life. Her resilience and positivity is extraordinary.”

Ms Green has returned to her medical studies and has said she is “grateful” that she can still pursue a career as a doctor despite being in a wheelchair.

Mr Donovan said Ms Green was planning a civil claim against Westfield. “He [Trawally] had been in Westfield for four-and-a-half hours and been seen in areas where the public shouldn’t go and was behaving in a bizarre way. Westfield really has a duty to keep ­people safe.”

Sentencing Trawally, of Parmiter Street, Bethnal Green, the judge added: “There is nothing to suggest that this was a spontaneous or impulsive act on your part. Therefore, there was a significant degree of premeditation … It might be said that you effectively used your body as a weapon to carry out this offence, given that you could have been in no doubt at all that you were very likely to fall on top of one of the people in the crowded area below.”

A spokesman for Aspire, a spinal ­injuries charity where Ms Green gives speeches, described her as an “absolute inspiration”.

Westfield was contacted for comment.