A family is distraught after a student sustained critical injuries when he fell from a third-storey balcony while travelling across Thailand.
Nursing student Jack Heathcock, 21, was on a trip of a lifetime backpacking through Thailand with a couple of pals when crisis struck on June 17.
On the day, which was just two days before he was due to flying home, the Teeside University student plummetted from the third storey balcony of his hotel in Chiang Mai in the northwest of the country.
