Brit trapped in Egypt after holiday horror incident

A granddad-of-three who fell and broke his hips on a family holiday says he is being forced to raise £55,000 to get back home despite being insured. Geoff Seedall, 69, who was recently diagnosed with Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's disease, tripped in the hotel in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and suffered the horror injury.

Geoff, from Stalmine in Lancashire, was told he needed surgery but doctors in Egypt advised him to have the operation in the UK. Geoff's daughter-in-law Kelly Seedall, 40, says the travel insurance company - InsureandGo - want him to pay £40,000 for a medical flight home and £15,000 for his hospital stay.

The company says it will reimburse Geoff, but his family cannot afford to pay the initial sum. Kelly said: "The whole reason you get travel insurance, is so you aren't in this situation where you have to pay out thousands."

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"If we had the money, then we wouldn't take out travel insurance because we don't need it, but they are saying we have to upfront the cost to get it home, and they will pay us back at a later date. We've put a complaint in and it will take eight weeks for them to respond - Geoff doesn't have eight weeks so we need to get him home."

Kelly says they have considered getting Geoff a commercial flight home but are worried about this because he's "getting confused." She said: "They would need to airlift him home. The £40,000 would be for the aircraft and for two nurses to go with him and put him on a stretcher. There's been talks of him getting on a commercial flight but he's confused and is lashing out - he's also struggling with the language barrier.

"To put him on an aircraft with other people wouldn't be the best