A British woman has died after falling from a balcony in
Singapore following England's World Cup win over Slovenia.
Sarah Royle, 31, is believed to have been celebrating the
one-nil victory when the accident happened last Wednesday.
Exact details about the circumstances surrounding her fall
remain unclear, but Miss Royle suffered broken bones and a blood
clot to the brain.
She had to be resuscitated in the ambulance on the way to
hospital and was placed on a life support machine.
Doctors only switched off life support on Sunday after Miss
Royle's sisters, Johanna, 35, and Premsa, 32, flew in from Hebden
Bridge, West Yorkshire, to be at her bedside.
Now they face having to raise thousands of pounds to pay to have
their sister's body repatriated.
Close family friend Julia Curtis, 32, said: 'Everyone is
devastated, Jo and Premsa are heartbroken. They just wanted to get
straight out there.
'The three of them are so close. They haven't got any other
family because both their parents have both died, so there's just
the three of them.
'She lived life to the full and she will be so missed by all her
friends and family.
'We really need to raise £30,000 to pay for all her medical
expenses - she was treated at a top hospital - and to bring
her body home, otherwise there will have to be a cremation service
at the hospital.
'We do not know yet if the insurance company will pay
out.'
Friend Liam Busby, 33, of Halifax, said: 'I went to school with
Sarah and remember her as a happy-go-lucky, bubbly, lovely
girl.
'People have been fantastic in rallying round raising money
going round the town with buckets.
'We hope everyone will contribute what they can and I would like
to make a plea to the Yorkshire community to give generously.'
Sarah had left England 18 months ago to live in Australia where
she worked in bars and clubs.
An oversight meant that her visa ran out and she had to travel
to Singapore to sort out the necessary paperwork.
She had been there for two weeks when the accident happened.
On Sunday, friends staged a vigil in Hebden Bridge during
England's final World Cup game and posters have been plastered over
pubs in memory of the popular woman known affectionately as Sarah
'Shark'.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman confirmed Sarah's
death and said her family were receiving consular assistance.