To not feel very sorry for woman stuck in Turkey.

Again, she says she was frightened they were going to murder her and that the taxi driver saved her life - there is no evidence for any of this.

What's more likely - hotel staff give chase and there's a bit of shouting and screaming in Turkish which she doesn't understand, or the mafia conduct a very public hit on a no-mark cleaner from Rochdale with witnesses?

They're not. She spent one night in jail. Since then she's been living in another hotel, spending the £15k her family raised to pay for the damage on her living expenses instead of handing it over and being free to return to the UK. Stupid is as stupid does.

And they would have tried to kill her if the taxi driver had not saved the day. No one is murdering you over a smashed shower door.

No, she's saying the hotel chased her because she did a runner. She has made up the mafia bit for extra dramatic effect.

You lost me at ‘celebrating his veneers’ and tried to run away on ‘a day trip to Greece’

You're wrong. The Ocean Club's restaurant they were eating at was on the opposite side of the pool from the McCann's apartment, 55 meters (180 ft) away, within their sight-line, and the adults took it in turns to check up on the children. Just because the apartment was within their sight-line doesn't mean they would have seen Maddy being abducted - there were windows on both sides of the apartment. Like the majority of people on holiday, they were relaxed and just couldn't conceive of such a terrible thing happening - just as you can't conceive of something terrible happening to your children when you go to the corner shop, but it could, yet you still do it. So, FWIW, I don't think you're a bad parent any more than I think the McCann's are and at no point have I said that "rich couples are somehow better" than you (or anyone else). If other people IRL call you a bad mum you should have it out with them and not project your insecurities onto me.

She's saying the Turkish mafia chased them from the hotel, so this sounds like drugs were involved. She's not going to admit to doing a runner to avoid paying for some drugs.

The bit ‘police chase. Got caught’ is what they probably didn’t expect as I’m sure in the uk they are used to getting away/ seeing people get away with all sorts.
Some countries actually treat ‘small’ crime still as a crime.

She did have the money to pay for it, but for some reason she didn’t pay and offered £3k instead and said a lawyer told her to do it. So ridiculous. Just pay then the damned money and you can leave.

Thanks @Shenmen Most people are treating this as simply a story of a foolish and irresponsible woman who has caused a lot of damage and got what she deserved. Maybe that's a fair view but, given we only have the reports of the Daily M and Manchester Eve News to go by (🙄), the headline in another paper could have been 'woman with serious mental health problem denied access to medication in Turkey after psychotic episode'. We've no idea which version is more accurate or whether it's a bit of both. Several posters are referring to 'drugs' but I can't see any mention of recreational drugs. Anti-psychotics are only given to people who are seriously mentally unwell and who may have impaired decision making. According to the stories, her partner's role in all this seems to be just to have teeth. Clearly there's more to this than a typical DM /MEN spin.

Can confirm by the obligatory tattoos. No money to pay for damage but happily waste it on tattoos.

Mum-of-one Georgia says she is heartbroken when daughter Poppy, 12, keeps calling to ask her when she is coming home

Wouldnt a 12 year old understand what is going on?

Classic FAFO

I struggled through the barely-literate begging story on Go Fund Me.

There are things that on the face of it are troubling - she claims to have been refused access to a lawyer and translator which isn't great. She claims the system is corrupt.

But the basis of the story is that she trashed the hotel room and rather than explain herself to the hotel, she did a runner. She was then stopped and arrested, and spent ONE NIGHT in a prison and was then released. She was told to pay £15k to make it all go away but she thought that was too much and offered £3k, which was refused. She has been told she cannot leave Turkey until her court case and has tried twice to breach this, once by trying to get a flight, once by trying to catch a ferry. She is now waiting in Turkey for her case to come to trial.

All the stuff about "my baby girl" and boo hooing about mistakes is doing her no favours - she is not taking responsibility for her stupid decisions.

Possibly but those opinions would also make you pay up and get out of there, not try to fight the system.

Moronic idiots, and what kind of people give money to this kind of begging website? Really boggles the mind. If you've got money to spare there are many more appropiate places to donate to.

Other than being abroad I don’t think you can compare this to the McCann at all. There are many Brits who get caught abroad for many reasons but committing a crime and then claiming stupidity really irritates me (xref those who smuggle in vast quantities of drugs and are then surprised they’re not sent home with a slap on the wrist)

she made a very poor decision in listening to her lawyer - she should have paid up and gone home.

£15k isn’t that much when it comes to that kind of damage and loss of income.

This was a very stupid thing to do in a country like turkey. I wouldn’t go there for a cosmetic procedure or surgery anyway. It may be cheaper than alternatives but it’s absolutely not worth the risk they don’t have the same standard of infection control etc. no idea what their justice system is like but I don’t want to find out

Do you know, it had never occurred to me that overseas procedures weren’t covered by ‘normal’ travel insurance actually.

She is correcting a previous poster who described it differently. She is not the first one to bring up this family on this thread.

You can actually get specialist medical travel insurance to cover medical treatment abroad.

Yes, this is a more accurate description.

PLEASE don’t start up with the Madeleine thing again! It was 20 years ago and we’ve all had enough, except you, clearly!

Why are they on prison. Why would the country keep them for six weeks etc?

Might have been worth it if the teeth had been ok, but they are dreadful! Shark-like and false. They deserved all they got! The people who paid into the go-fund-me account need to get some sense. There are starving children they could give their money to, not chavs who want gravestones for teeth!