A DAD of one smashed nearly every bone in his body when he plunged over 100ft from the ninth floor of a Birmingham tower block.

But Angelo Nicotra has cheated death and made a miraculous recovery from his fall from Oast House Flats, Grumbleberrys Close, Ward End.

The 22-year-old shattered his ankles, pelvis, arms, heels and even his jaw when he fell out of his window and landed on a concrete pavement below three days after Christmas.

Heartlands Hospital medics have worked night and day to get him back on his feet, operating on him eight times.

Doctors and nurses overseeing Angelo’s recovery say he can now walk 60 metres – a huge achievement considering the injuries he sustained.

But his physical condition is a far cry from the energetic young man who was proud of his toned, muscled body before the fall changed his life.

Angelo is now finally ready to leave Rowan Ward at the Bordesley Green hospital, run by Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, for the first time in three months, and is due home today.

Speaking from his hospital bed Angelo, who has a seven month old son called Angelo Junior, said he fell after he took sleeping tablets, and believes he must have been hallucinating on December 28.

He said he took the pills because he had been feeling depressed over relationship problems and not being able to find a job.

“I think I must have been hallucinating. I can’t remember the fall at all and just remember waking up in hospital,” said Angelo, who grew up in Small Heath and went to Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School.

“I broke nearly every bone in my body and it has been a long slog. I had to have two metal rods coming out of my pelvis and I didn’t know if I would ever walk again.