A family heeded an insurance warning after it cost them £10,000 to bring their seriously injured loved one home. Andre Franco had to have part of his skull removed after a horror buggy accident in Cyprus.
As reported exclusively by the Mirror, the 22-year-old from Camden in North London cracked his head open and suffered major swelling to his brain after falling from the buggy in the popular resort of Nicosia. After several weeks of treatment, his parents decided to bring him home but his insurance did not cover repatriation costs.
Andre had been a passenger in the rented buggy in the early hours of May 21 after drinking heavily with his pals, said his mum Isabel Franco, 62. As Andre was rushed to hospital, one of his friends called Isabel in London to tell her what had happened.
