Holiday death fall boy, 12, was being nagged by mother
A BOY of 12 who fell from a balcony while on holiday died during a suspected ‘moment of silliness’ after being nagged about doing his chores.
Talented singer Lucas Briscoe was on the last day of a fortnight break in Fuengirola, on Spain’s Costa del Sol, when he died.
Last night his mother said she would ‘never recover’ from his death. The youngster, a keen rugby player and singer in a band, was due to audition for ITV’s The Voice Kids programme this weekend.
Nicola Marshall, 51, said she had been ‘nagging’ her son about helping clean their apartment – but revealed she would never know whether he slipped or deliberately jumped over the sixth-floor balcony. Miss Marshall, of Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, said: ‘We had the usual complaints over hoovering and cleaning, all the usual chaos before you go home after a fantastic two weeks in the sun.
‘But what should have been the final day of an amazing holiday ended up being the worst day of my life.
‘I lost my world, my everything, when Lucas went over the balcony. A fall, a jump, a slip, a moment of silliness, boyish behaviour, annoyed at his mum for nagging him over hoovering. I will never know. But what I do know one million per cent is that if Lucas had truly known the repercussions of climbing over, he wouldn’t have wanted that.
‘He wouldn’t have wanted to leave this world. Not yet. He had everything going for him. I don’t think I will ever get over this. I’ve lost everything.’
Lucas was a pupil at St Nicholas Catholic High School, in Hartford, and a keen rugby player, winning ‘player of the year’ several times at Knutsford Rugby Club.
‘I can’t believe he is gone,’ Miss Marshall told Cheshire Live, an online news service. ‘From the moment I held my baby boy in my arms, to the
‘I lost my world, my everything’
young man he had become, my proudest moments were telling people he was mine.’
Lucas’s father, Gary Briscoe, 56, who runs a packaging firm, added: ‘Lucas was a memorable character... he is going to leave a big hole in a lot of lives. He packed so much into his 12 years and lived it to the full. No one expects to say goodbye to a child and not in circumstances like this.
‘We are devastated at losing our precious, vibrant and loving son.’
Emergency services were called to the apartment block, where Miss Marshall’s family owns a holiday home, at around 1.30pm on Tuesday. Paramedics tried to resuscitate Lucas but he could not be saved. His body is due to be flown to the UK.