A Weston woman says she's facing a bill of nine thousand pounds after getting her injured son home from Israel - where he was stranded in hospital for a week and a half after falling from a balcony.

David McLaughlin - who's 20 - is now in Weston General waiting for a transfer to Bristol's Frenchay for surgery ... but his care and flight back must be paid for after insurers Axa ruled he wasn't covered. 

His mum Liz says she accepts that but has told Nova News if she'd had a quicker answer she could've got David home sooner:

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B/A: Axa have told us it was 'due to the complexity of the situation' and 'it would have been wrong to have made a decision without investigating the full circumstances'.