Mum who trashed hotel room after Turkey teeth celebrations still stuck abroad 7 weeks on

Mum who trashed hotel room after Turkey teeth celebrations still stuck abroad 7 weeks on

A mum who reckons she’s been unfairly slapped with a travel ban after wrecking her hotel room in Turkey has found herself stranded abroad. Georgia Harrison has been separated from her daughter for seven weeks now, despite offering up 拢10,000 to get back home. The 32-year-old from Whitworth in Rochdale, was arrested alongside her partner when they tried to leave the Lexia Hotel in Antalya on May 7. The couple had been out celebrating her fella’s new teeth when Georgia says she blacked out and ended up smashing a bathroom screen. After trying to leave the hotel without owning up to the damage, she claims she was later arrested, chucked in a cell, and dragged to court. There, she was told to cough up 拢15,000 for the damage and ‘resisting arrest’ to have her travel ban lifted. What followed was weeks of chaos for the Greater Manchester mum who told the Manchester Evening News that she initially offered 拢3,000 and instructed legal representatives to try and fight for the travel ban to be lifted so she could return home with her daughter, aged 12. “I got drunk and I have somehow smashed the shower screen of the hotel room and damaged the room. [It was the] worst mistake of my life. Anyway it’s done, I can’t change it but wow am I paying for it,” she confessed last week. “I know I did wrong and I regret being so stupid to have damaged the hotel, but I need to get home to my daughter. “I’m sorry I was scared and I just tried to get away from it by trying to leave. Yes it was the wrong thing to do, but I was scared and not thinking straight. Maybe if I didn’t, I would be in this mess. I know only I am to blame and my actions are the reason I cannot see my daughter.” Since the incident, Georgia claims she has appeared in court and unknowingly signed an agreement to pay back 拢15,000 in damages, was originally denied a solicitor, and has also been unable to access her vital medication, which she only had a five-day supply of for her original trip. Despite attempts at mediation with legal representatives overseas, she says the travel ban has still not been lifted, with the fine looming over her, and she has since tried to flee the country via plane, a ferry and a day trip to Greece. She has also claimed the travel ban was wrongly put in place for ‘resisting arrest’, which she denied. In a recent public post on Facebook, the distraught mum revealed she’s now offered 拢10,000 in damages in a bid to finally jet back home, but she’s still ‘no closer’ to resolving the issue and is desperate ‘to get home to my child’. “I want the ground to swallow me up sharing this,” she wrote. “I’ve offered them 10 grand ’cause it’s all I’ve got, but still no closer!”. “I just can’t fathom how a prosecutor from a court can admit the ban has been wrongly imposed, as I didn’t resist arrest like they claimed. I kicked off because I was denied a solicitor at the police station and rightly so. “All I need [is] to get home to my child and to everybody who is asking why I didn’t pay the money in the first place, is because my lawyer kept telling me to ‘hold on in there Georgia we will get there in the end’. “I don’t have it in me to stay and wait it out. I want to just pay the money and go, but up to now they won’t even accept the 10 thousand even though the actual damage was valued at 拢1,000. It’s crazy. “What else do you do [but] just sit and wait and get frustrated at the situation. Yeah I put myself in but wow I’m trying every option to get home and nothing at all is working still.” A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise funds for Georgia to pay the fine and support her with costs while staying in Turkey. Donations can be made here. The Foreign Office has been contacted for comment.

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