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Brit stuck in Thailand with £100,000 bill after mistake at tourist hotspot they found on TikTok

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Published 12:18 10 May 2025 GMT+1

Brit stuck in Thailand with £100,000 bill after mistake at tourist hotspot they found on TikTok

He had a 'life changing accident'

Joe Harker

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A Brit is stuck in Thailand and facing a £100,000 bill after he suffered serious injuries while visiting a tourist hotspot.

On 12 April, 21-year-old Liam Gibson had a serious fall when he slipped while trying to take a picture at the Na Muang Waterfall 2.

Liam's girlfriend Lucy Baldwin said the Brit had been left in a 'horrific state' from the fall as he had 'bones sticking out of his legs', 'broken bones everywhere' and a 'completely shattered face and skull'.

It took two hours for the emergency services to arrive, and a further three hours for them to get him into an ambulance all the while he was in serious pain from his myriad injuries.

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Once he was in hospital, doctors said that Liam, a soldier, had 'completely shattered his femur in three places' as well as broken his right arm, left hand, eye socket, cheek bone, nose and skull as well as had multiple other wounds.

Liam survived his life threatening injuries, but now he needs help to make it home (GoFundMe)
Liam survived his life threatening injuries, but now he needs help to make it home (GoFundMe)

As such, he's had major surgeries and blood transfusions to help him recover from the life threatening injuries.

However, according to a GoFundMe set up by Lucy - which you can donate to here - Liam's medical bills have climbed to over £100,000 and he requires a medical flight to get back to the UK, where he will have more surgery to fix his femur and go through rehabilitation where he will learn to walk again.

Lucy said that Liam 'cannot leave the hospital until this bill is paid', so it sounds like he is stuck in Thailand on the other side of the world from the site of his next surgery and rehabilitation.

She's been urging people to donate what they can to pay Liam's bills and get him the flight back to the UK he needs so he can continue his recovery.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Lucy said: "When I saw the state he was in, I was just in sheer panic. I had to hold him so he wouldn't slip further down the waterfall with my arms and legs wrapped around him, sitting in a pool of his blood.

The Thai waterfall is a tourist hotspot, but visitors have died in the past (Peter Bischoff/Getty Images)
The Thai waterfall is a tourist hotspot, but visitors have died in the past (Peter Bischoff/Getty Images)

"He had bone sticking out of his leg, you could see his skull. It was absolutely horrific."

She explained to the paper that they'd been taking pictures at the waterfall when she realised he'd been 'gone just a bit too long', finding him having fallen onto a rock ledge and 'passed out'.

It took great effort to reach him, and they tied a t-shirt around Liam's leg to stop him from dying of blood loss, and she said that waiting with her boyfriend while he was in such pain was 'the worst thing I have ever experienced'.

"The medical bills are just so expensive and obviously the longer he's there the more they're going up which is why its so urgent to bring him home," she said.

Featured Image Credit: GoFundMe

Topics: UK News, Travel, World News, GoFundMe, Health, Money

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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