A woman who completed the London Marathon while dressed as a fish is celebrating setting a new world record.
Sarah Haddock, 42, from Hoo in Kent, completed Sunday's race dressed as a swordfish in under eight hours.
She set a Guinness World Record for the feat while raising money for the charity Spinal Research, four years after her husband was paralysed from the neck down in a freak accident.
"With a name like Haddock, why not make it even more of a challenge to do the London Marathon dressed as a swordfish?," she said.
The clinical support worker, who plans to train to become a physiotherapist, added: "I have sclerosis and just after the 11-mile mark I felt my toe break and so was in agony for the rest of the run.
"It was incredibly emotional but the support I've received has been unreal, and to get a world record on top is wonderful."
Ms Haddock's husband, Paul, sustained his injury after collapsing while on holiday in Greece and landing face-first.
After three weeks, he was flown back to Medway where he remained in hospital for three months, before being transferred to a specialist spinal injury unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire for a further six months.
Ms Haddock said: "It was obviously a huge struggle mentally at first for both of us but once Paul got to Stoke Mandeville and started to make some progress he became so motivated".
