Article: Pop song helps to revive coma girl

A 12-YEAR-OLD coma victim regained consciousness at a Birmingham hospital singing the lyrics of a her favourite pop song after repeatedly being played the tune, her mother has revealed.

Parents Dawn and Keith Poole listened in amazement as their seriously-ill daughter Deborah mouthed the lyrics to the B*Witched tune, Rollercoaster.

Days earlier, Deborah was the victim of a hit-and-run driver when she was knocked her down as she played with a friend near her home in Upper Gornal, Dudley. Fighting Deborah's 35-year-old mother told how she played the B*Witched song to her daughter over and over again as she lay fighting for her life in the intensive care ...

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