A glamorous Australian woman was left fighting for her life after kissing a man on top of a cliff and then plunging 11 metres to the bottom in Croatia.
Ella Cutler, 25, was with a 34-year-old man at the old town wall at Pile in Dubrovnik in the early hours of August 26 when they toppled over.
Police confirmed the pair had been leaning against the wall kissing, and were believed to have been under the influence of alcohol at the time.
Ms Cutler suffered a string of serious injuries in the fall, including fractures to her skull, spine, limbs, 12 broken ribs and punctured lungs.
She was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and remains in a coma. The man was treated for a broken leg and is recovering.
Ms Cutler’s family back in Western Australia are struggling to get the funds together to bring her home with the total cost reaching $500,000.
The 25-year-old is a police officer who had been on the holiday of a lifetime before it was disastrously cut short.
One of Ms Cutler’s three brothers, Joshua, has launched a GoFundMe to help foot the hefty medical bill in flying Ella home to Western Australia.
Ella Cutler, 25, was with a 34-year-old man at the old town wall at Pile in Dubrovnik in the early hours of August 26 when they toppled over
‘Everyone who knows her will tell you about her calm and gentle energy, her love of furry creatures great and small, her selflessness in helping people, and her ability to make everyone she meets feel special,’ he said.
‘We can only imagine how scared she would be if she knew the full extent of her injuries, and we cannot even begin to convey how frightened we are for her, and how important it is for her to come home.
‘She has too much living left to do, too many people to help, and too much love to give for this to be how this chapter ends. She has a long hard road ahead of her, and she will need all the help she can get. From doctors, family, friends, colleagues, and you.
‘The world doesn’t have enough Ella’s, and it needs her.’
Ms Cutler’s medical expenses have already amounted to $100,000, and an air ambulance to bring her back to Australia will cost another $400,000.
‘She will require many more months of care, multiple surgeries, and months of physical rehabilitation before she is able to impact the world as she once did,’ her brother wrote.
‘She can’t do this alone, and neither can we.’
Ms Cutler is now in an induced coma after suffering fractures to her skull, spine, limbs and ribs
The area where the couple were out enjoying a night before the tragic accident is above (left) at the seafront of the Croatian port of Dubrovnik which is a tourist mecca in summer, especially for Australians
Mr Cutler thanked the doctors and nurses who’ve been caring for his sister while she’s overseas, with the police officer now receiving care in a bigger hospital with better facilities.
The fundraiser has so far garnered more than $96,000 in donations.
The wall from which the couple is believed to have fallen is a popular selfie spot, and is between two fortresses, Lovrijenac and Bokar.
Andrijana Biskup, from the Dubrovnik-Neretva police, confirmed the couple had been cuddling or kissing when the fall happened and said alcohol may have played a part.
The local hospital confirmed the blood alcohol tests revealed the man had a 0.2 reading – four times the legal Australian driving limit – while the woman was 0.3, or six times the legal driving limit.
The couple were believed to have been on a night out in Dubrovnik’s old town area at the time of the accident, which is packed with tourists every summer.
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