A RUGBY player is suing a heavier opponent she claims paralysed her by belly flopping on her at a scrum.
Dani Watts, 34, suffered the devastating injury in an amateur match in October 2017.
The mum of two says beefy Natasha King was playing too aggressively when she snapped her spine with a crunching, illegal tackle.
Personal trainer Miss Watts – now a wheelchair-user and in severe pain – is suing for millions of pounds in the first case of its kind in the women’s game.
Her lawyer, Robert Weir KC, said: “The nature of the tackle and its execution was not reasonable or lawful.