FRIENDS and family are raising money to bring home a young Poole woman who was left paralysed by an accident on holiday.

Dina Amos-Larkin, 21, a keen gymnast and law student at the University of Surrey, attended Saloufest sports and party event in Barcelona, which ended in tragedy after she fell from a hotel balcony on April 2.

Her mum, Audrey, and dad, Stephen, travelled to be with their daughter but have been told that their insurance does not cover her to travel home following the accident.

An online fundraising page set up to return her home has so far topped £15,000.

Audrey said: "She went up to her room in the hotel and leant on the balcony rail, which was at waist height, and fell over it.

"The doctors said her injuries are consistent with a fall on her back which include a broken spinal cord around her chest area, meaning that she has no feeling below her chest.

"Both wrists are broken, with one having to be fixed internally, her back had to be fixed internally, she had two bleeds on the brain and was put in a medically-induced coma for two weeks, before being woken up on April 15.

"The thing is that our home isn't set up for somebody in a wheelchair, so we will have to make the adaptations.

"It has been a shock for the both of us. It's hard to bear at the moment."

Dina said: "I just remember that I was drunk and two weeks later I woke up and I can't move. I was a gymnast and very sporty as well and now I can't do that anymore. The doctors have said that there is a 99-per-cent chance that I won't walk again. I hope that I can go back to England soon."

James Cochrane, 20, from Poole, a school friend of Dina, said that he set up the Go Fund Me page to help the family to bring her home.

He added: "She’s had spinal surgery and we wanted to raise £10,000 to get her home as she’d need to come over on the plane with all the doctors and hospital equipment.

"I said to her mum that she should not have the burden of worrying about how to get her daughter back to England and then what they will do when she gets home, so I set up the fundraising page.

"It went online at around 6pm on Friday and got to £7,500 in less than 24 hours, which is amazing. The response has been massive and I know that her family is so grateful for everyone’s support."

For more information, go to Gofundme.com/getdeehome