THE mother of tragic bomb blast victim Hannah Lloyd spoke publicly for the first time this week about the nightmare which engulfed her family during a holiday abroad.

Heide Lloyd described the immediate aftermath of the bombing which destroyed the hotel in the Egyptian resort where the family had been staying.

"The hospital where the girls were taken, she said, was totally inadequate to deal with the horrific consequences.

"Hannah and Georgie were treated without any pain relief - such as morphine - and no antibiotics of any kind," she said. "I had to gently pour a saline solution over Hannah as there was no-one else to do it.

"I was also close to pulling down curtains to lay over her as she was so cold, suffering from hypothermia, dreadfully dehydrated because of the burns, and there was no other bedding to hand.

"Ironically, later a nurse walked in with a freshly-ironed and still warm sheet. It was surreal.

"On another occasion a nurse came in with a towel that was covered in blood at one end and tried to put it on Hannah. I shouted at her not to as I was afraid of AIDS or something else possibly being transferred and Hannah had no skin defence mechanism.

"Fortunately there were a number of paramedics and other people with medical knowledge who were staying in the area and they rushed in to help where they could.

"All this time, even though Hannah was so badly injured, she was conscious and kept asking where her younger sister Georgie was. She said she felt so cold that she knew she was going to die.

"I was not seriously injured, but when they put Hannah into an ambulance - which was basically a white van - to take her to the hospital, they rammed the stretcher trolley in and broke one of my toes."

Hannah was eventually flown to Cairo and then to Stansted Airport in Essex and then by road ambulance to nearby Chelmsford.

"With my brother Carl, Georgie and I flew to Gatwick and went to Cheltenham by private ambulance provided by My Travel. The crew and specialist medical staff were fantastic and we can't thank them enough.

"Further X-rays of Georgie in Cheltenham showed that, in addition to her many other injuries, she had a broken shoulder and should not have been allowed to fly in the first place.

"Meanwhile, in Chelmsford, Hannah's organs were gradually failing and despite the excellent work and best care that the staff there could possible give, she died on August 8, 16 days after the explosion."