A HEARTBROKEN mum told last night how her son died after a horror accident on holiday – when he plunged down a flight of stairs.

Janet Kerrigan´s 28-year-old lad David tripped in his hotel and hit his head in the tumble after a night out in Spanish resort Benidorm.

The security guard was rushed to hospital in Alicante – where medics found he had suffered a brain haemorrhage.

Last night devastated Janet, 47, revealed he´d spent just one night in the Costa Blanca town when the freak accident happened. And she sobbed as she recalled her last words to David before he set off on the two-week break with a pal were “be careful”.

She said: “It´s every mother´s worst nightmare.

“David was such a wonderful, joking, playful son. I can´t believe he´s gone.

“The last time I spoke to him I told him, ´You look after yourself, you be careful.´

“We never expected this to happen. I couldn´t believe it when we got the call to say there had been an accident.”

David´s grieving sister Tracey – who called her brother her “soulmate” – caught the next available flight to Spain after the accident last month.

But Janet, who had never been abroad, suffered an agonising wait before she could travel while her passport application was processed.

She said: “When I arrived at the hospital, I was shocked to see David. He was full of tubes, he looked so helpless.”

David, of Hamilton, spent two weeks in a coma before he lost his fight for life earlier this month. And grieving Janet and Tracey had to borrow money to fly out to bring David´s body home as he did not have any travel insurance. His funeral was held last Friday.

Tracey, 26, said: “David was my soulmate. We had the same group of friends so we hung out together all the time. I feel like I´ve lost my best friend.

“We also had to borrow money to pay for our flights out there to bring him home. It´s been terrible.”

Janet added: “David had his whole life in front of him. I feel so lost without him.

“His best friend had asked him to be a godfather to their wee baby. He was proud of that.”

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