DAILY STAR
A British woman left unable to walk after falling off a hotel balcony while on holiday has returned home after a successful fundraiser drummed up £75,000 in donations.
Maddi Neale-Shankster, 21, was loving life on her three-week trip to the country with her partner when she fell from the second floor of her accommodation on New Year’s Eve.
The Coventry-native suffered a broken back, broken ribs which pierced her liver and two collapsed lungs after falling 60ft, on what has been described as a dodgy “low wooden bannister rail”.
Her insurance company reportedly refused to pay the bill so her family and friends managed to raise £75,000 to bring Maddie back from Ko Pha-Ngan island – and she is now safe in the UK where she will continue her rehabilitation.
Her mum Karen said that Maddie made a mistake with her insurance. “Maddi took holiday insurance while in Thailand for 10,000 baht (£247).
“She thought it was £10,000… I’d hate for anybody to be in this position.”
The fundraiser is for “all hospital fees, repatriation and transportation costs back to the UK”…
