Mum's seven-week Turkey nightmare after 'stupid mistake' in hotel saw her thrown in cell

A mum is stranded in Turkey without her daughter after allegedly being slapped with a wrongful travel ban for wrecking her hotel room, despite offering £10,000 to return home.

Georgia Harrison's seven-week nightmare began on May 7 when the 32-year-old, from Whitworth in Rochdale, found herself in hot water following an arrest with her partner as they tried to check out of the Lexia Hotel in Antalya. The couple had been celebrating her boyfriend's new dental work when she claims to have blacked out and accidentally destroyed a bathroom screen.

She attempted to leave the hotel without reporting the damage but later ended up arrested, thrown into a cell, and hauled before a court, where she was ordered to fork out £15,000 for the damages and 'resisting arrest' to lift the travel restriction.

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The incident has plunged the Greater Manchester mother into weeks of chaos. She initially put forward £3,000 and engaged solicitors to challenge the travel ban so she could reunite with her 12 year old daughter, reports the Manchester Evening News.

"I got drunk and I have somehow smashed the shower screen of the hotel room and damaged the room. [It was the] worst mistake of my life. Anyway it's done, I can't change it but wow am I paying for it," she lamented last week.

"I know I did wrong and I regret being so stupid to have damaged the hotel, but I need to get home to my daughter.

"I'm sorry I was scared and I just tried to get away from it by trying to leave. Yes it was the wrong thing to do, but I was scared and not thinking straight. Maybe if I didn't, I would be in this mess. I know only I am to blame and my actions are the reason I cannot see my daughter."

Since the incident, Georgia claims she has been to court and unintentionally agreed to a settlement of £15,000 for damages, was initially denied legal representation, and has also been cut off from her critical medication which she had only packed for five days as per her original travel plans.

Despite attempts to negotiate with foreign legal teams, she insists that the travel restriction has yet to be lifted, with the hefty fine hanging over her head, and she has attempted escape via plane, ferry, and even a day trip to Greece. She vehemently denies the travel ban allegations of 'resisting arrest'.

In a fresh public appeal on Facebook, the distressed mother shared that she has now proposed £10,000 as compensation in hopes of being able to return home, but finds herself still 'no closer' to resolving the situation and is desperate 'to get home to my child'.

"I want the ground to eat me sharing this. I've offered them 10 grand 'cause it's all I've got, but still no closer. I just don't understand how a prosecutor from a court can admit the ban has been place wrongly, as I didn't resist arrest like they said I did. I went mad because I was refused a lawyer in the police station and rightly so.

"All I need [is] to get home to my child and to everybody who is asking why I didn't pay the money in the first place, is because my lawyer kept telling me to 'hold on in there Georgia we will get there in the end'.

"I don't have it in me to stay and wait it out. I want to just pay the money and go, but up to now they won't even accept the 10 thousand even though the actual damage was valued at £1,000. It's crazy. What else do you do [but] just sit and wait and get frustrated at the situation. Yeah I put myself in but wow I'm trying every option to get home and nothing at all is working still."

A GoFundMe page has been established to help raise funds for Georgia to cover the fine and support her with expenses during her stay in Turkey. Donations can be made here.

The Foreign Office has been approached for a statement.