A MUM who suffered horrific burns in a pub heater explosion has told she is still too scared to leave her home a year on.
April Charlesworth, 29, was enjoying a birthday visit to her local with cousin Ashleigh, 28, when a man threw ethanol at the burner in April 2021.
Both women were engulfed in flames, sustaining horrific injuries to their faces.
And despite the healing her body has done she has revealed that she still worries about leaving her house.
She explained: “Before the incident, I was happy to go out all the time, I was a bit of a party girl.
“Now I can't think of anything worse, I don't like going out I'd rather just sit at home with my little boy.
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“I'm just more anxious about everything and I've get really bad paranoia.
“I can't go out by myself, and I feel like everyone I see on the street is out to get me.
"I know that's not true, and what happened was a freak occurrence, but I can't stop the anxiousness.”
April has to wear compression garments on her face and chest 23 hours a day and have laser surgery every six weeks for her scars after the horror incident.
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She explained: “I was at the pub with my friends when someone poured ethanol over a table heater.
“The fire suddenly jumped up and consumed me and another friend sitting right next to me.
“I remember after the incident I was really confused as to what was going on, my shirt was burnt up so I was walking around the pub topless.
“I did not realise the extent of my injuries I refused to go to the hospital I just wanted to go home and see my son.”
April was rushed to the hospital after the incident and put under an induced coma for four days.
She has third-degree burns on seven per cent of her body, including her face, chest and hands and spent four weeks in bandages in the hospital after the incident.
She said: “They scratch and itch and I can barely breathe in them but the swelling and redness on my chest have already gone down and they are exceedingly helpful.
“I have a plastic mask I wear on my face with holes in the eye, nose and mouth.
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“I also sleep with the compression mask on, it was exceedingly uncomfortable and suffocating, to begin with. I could barely breathe and only got two-three hours of sleep some nights.
“I have to have the mask altered every two months as the swelling and scars on my face change and it stops fitting right.”
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