THE mother of Sharm-el-Sheikh bombing victim Hannah Lloyd has spoken of her "beautiful, sparkling" daughter at an inquest.

Heide Lloyd, of Evesham, Worcestershire, said her 16-year-old daughter Hannah had been "stolen from her" in the attack on Sharm el-Sheikh in July.

A coroner concluded that eight of the 11 Britons killed in the bombings had died as a result of an act of terrorism overseas.

Caroline Beasley-Murray, sitting at a hearing in Chelmsford, Essex, is expected to return identical verdicts on the other three victims.

Relatives of the dead attacked the British Government for "failing" to offer support and compensation. Mrs Lloyd cried as a court official read out her eulogy to Hannah.

"Hannah could never wait to grow up," said Mrs Lloyd's tribute.

"It was always hard to keep up with her energy and enthusiasm for life."

Mrs Lloyd said her daughter "seemed unstoppable" and added: "At last she had reached a point where she could really fly and I thought 'now she is safe - she is prepared for the world'. How wrong I was.

"My beautiful sparkling daughter has been stolen from me."

She added: "We have no real answers as to why, no one to blame or hate."

The coroner told the victims' families: "I appreciate that this inquest must be the most dreadful experience for each of you.

"Some of you were present in Egypt at the time of the bomb and many others of you had the dreadful experience of travelling out after the bombings to search for your loved ones."

Det Insp Tim Metcalfe, senior investigating officer with West Midlands Police, told the inquest that the resort was rocked by three explosions in the early hours of Saturday, July 23.

He said the first explosion in the old marketplace was not thought to have claimed any British lives, but that British people had died in the second at the Ghazala Gardens Hotel and the third at a nearby taxi rank.

Mr Metcalfe said that at around 1.15am a car carrying an explosive device was driven into the foyer of the hotel.

Mrs Lloyd, along with other relatives of the victims, has hit out at the lack of Government support her family have received.

The inquest was due to end today.