A mother is reaching out to find the couple that helped her after she was struck with excruciating back pain in Hayes End .

27-year-old Sam Maryan woke up on Monday (26 October) morning with a bad back, so she “plodded along” to the chemist, with her daughter, to buy paracetamol and deep heat, thinking it would go away.

She said: “I went into Iceland in Hayes End and my back got worse and by the time I left I couldn't walk, I felt prickles from the waist down.

Sam had a muscle spasm in her back which caused her severe pain and could barely move.

“This couple were sitting in their car, I didn't think anything of them. I managed to get to the car and my daughter opened the car door, got in and sat down but by that time I couldn't even sit.

“All of a sudden the lady in the car came over to me and asked if everything was all right and I just burst into tears.

“I said: 'I can't walk, I can't sit down, I can't do anything.”

The couple called 999 and asked for an ambulance but they said they wouldn't send one as it wasn't an emergency.

Still in pain, the couple, along with a nearby shopkeeper, helped Sam into their 4x4. The man drove Sam to A&E whilst the woman drove her car and her daughter home.

Speaking of the man, Sam said: “He took to me A&E, he got me out the car and registered and left. I said thank you but I was in so much pain I never got to ask his name.

“I just want to find them because it was just such a random act of kindness. There were loads of people in Iceland and not one person stopped.

“This couple were just so nice. Nobody ever does that anymore and I know I can't find them to say thank you.”

Sam describes the couple as being well dressed and spoken. The man had a cap on and is possibly called Mike, and the woman had short brown hair and wore glasses.

Mrs Maryan, who works as a catering assistant, says she was “apprehensive” at first because no one goes out of their way to help anymore.

She added: “I was so surprised and so grateful because I was in so much pain, they were my lifesavers.

“What they did saved me and my back. I didn't want my daughter to see me the way I was... They calmed me and my daughter down.

“I'd like to give them a big bunch of flowers, bottle of wine, anything, just say to thank you – I would never have expected anyone to help me the way they did.”

If you are the man or woman who helped Sam at her time of need and would like to get in touch, email katherine.clementine@trinitymirror.com