Man who proposed in ICU after crash returns to UK

Elliot Griffiths is continuing his treatment at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

A car crash victim who proposed to his boyfriend from his hospital bed on holiday has returned to the UK to continue his recovery.

Elliot Griffiths, 26, was transferred to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) after his insurance company chartered a medical flight from Reykjavik in Iceland.

His fiancé Zak Nelson, 28, who also suffered bruising in the crash, said they were both relieved to be back on home soil.

The couple hope to tie the knot at the end of next year.

After the crash the couple had no idea whether the other was alive

"We haven't set a [wedding] date yet because it all depends on Elliot's recovery," Mr Nelson said.

"We've just got to bide our time and wait, but we're hoping by the end of next year we'll be standing at the front of a big marquee with our friends and family in the sunshine in the Norfolk countryside."

On 21 April, just hours after arriving in Iceland, the couple were involved in a car crash.

Mr Nelson, a First Bus marketing executive, said a car in the opposite lane pulled out and collided with them head-on.

Mr Griffiths suffered internal bleeding, and after emergency surgery was left needing a stoma – an opening in the tummy which diverts part of the bowel.

When the couple, who both live in Norwich, were reunited in hospital Mr Griffiths asked Mr Nelson to marry him and he said yes.

The couple hope to return to Iceland and see the sights they had planned to visit

Mr Nelson said while they hoped to get married next year, no date had been set on when Mr Griffiths would be discharged from the NNUH.

"We're closer to friends and family now, so rather than him staring at my face for 12 hours a day, as much as he'd tell me that’s a good thing, he can vary that up now," he laughed.