Heartbroken mother’s horror after her 15-year-old son fell through a glass door in Turkey holiday accident
- Steph Burke flew out to Antalya in Turkey after hearing about the accident
- Liam Staniforth-Burke sustained cuts to his neck, stomach, hip and hands
A heartbroken mother has revealed her horror after her 15-year-old son tripped and fell through a glass door in his hotel room in Turkey in a holiday accident.
Steph Burke, 34, flew out to Antalya in Turkey after hearing the news about Liam Staniforth-Burke’s accident on Tuesday.
She was upset to see him lying in a hospital bed as doctors feared he was not going to live and he is now at risk of life-changing injuries, including disability.
Speaking to the Mirror, Steph, who flew out on Wednesday morning, said: ‘It has made his mouth drooping and unless that is sorted and quickly with this surgery, it could be devastating.
‘His mouth on the right-hand side isn’t moving.
Liam Staniforth-Burke sustained cuts to his neck, stomach, hip and hands. His mother was upset to see him lying in a hospital bed
‘I nearly broke down when I saw him there.’
Liam, from Hattersley in Tameside, sustained cuts to his neck, stomach, hip and hands. Steph also noted that her son would be left with a ‘big scar’.
He remains in the hospital in Antalya where he has already had one operation.
However, he did not have travel insurance and now his family has launched a fundraising drive to pay for his medical bills, including a second op, so they can fly him home.
Liam, a pupil at Alder Community High School in Gee Cross, flew to Turkey with family friends on Sunday night but suffered terrible injuries when he fell through a glass door to the balcony of his room at Belpoint Beach Hotel and Spa in Antalya.
He was rushed to Akdenis university hospital for emergency treatment.
Mother-of-one Steph told the M.E.N: ‘He’s gone into the hotel room and tried to open the door and fell through the glass. He stood up but he was in total shock… He was taken to reception and then straight to hospital.
‘He lost a lot of blood. He’s got a big cut from his ear to his shoulder. They did an operation on him up the wound with stitches. But they’ve done tests on him since and his mouth on the right-hand-side isn’t moving and he needs another operation before they even start that.’
She said they need another £4,000 on top of the £1,600 the hospital has already charged.
Steph added: ‘He’s OK at the moment but he can’t talk and he’s not allowed to eat. He’s not fully right at all.’
She admitted that the family friends who had taken Liam on holiday, who have known him since he was a baby, were ‘devastated’.
She also had a message for people who take holidays abroad.
Steph said: ‘Make sure they take that travel insurance out. He definitely needs help so I can get my son back home.’
By Thursday evening the family’s GoFundMe page had already raised just over its £7,000 goal.
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