on her arrival at hospital, surgeons found that the bullet had penetrated mrs groce's lung and exited through her spine, paralysing her from the waist downwards. she was hospitalised for over a year, and in hospital-based rehabilitation for a further year; friends within the local community looked after her children. with mrs groce permanently paralysed and only able to get around in a wheelchair, and after further rehabilitation, she and her family were allocated a new bungalow in which to live.