I think the OP must have a particularly dodgy backbox.
Cos when there's a major accident, the backboxes are always found intact and sent away to find out what went wrong.
Apologies all for the tardy final update, cutting a long story short at the back of the engine there is a short rubber pipe that leads up to the fuel rail sensor and the pipe was split … so fairly straightforward but not easy to fix, I got a new...