resort<\/a> since February 1.<\/p>\nDaniella said: \u201cA year ago on February 4, we lost our little girl Hollie who had died from SIDS. The memories of that date, of the paramedics rushing around our house, were just too raw so we decided to book a holiday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat day we had gone shopping in Malaga and when we returned to the hotel the kids had been playing at the night entertainment. Robert had been at the bar and speaking to other British holidaymakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was getting late so I told him I was taking the kids to bed first. He came into the room and gave both kids a kiss and told them he loved them. He then went out on the balcony for a cigarette.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just hours before Hollie\u2019s anniversary. I woke up when the kids screamed, \u2018Mum, Robert has fallen off the balcony.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all jumped up and ran out of the room into the hallway. Everything that happened next was a blur.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Hotel staff, police and nurses offered Danielle an \u00adinjection to try to calm her down. She added that Robert, who also had two daughters, nine and 13, from a previous relationship, had suffered a fall on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
The fall had left him with a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain which also left him confused. She was unsure if the \u00adconfusion he suffered had contributed towards how Robert was feeling before his death.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cRobert was really \u00adstruggling. I knew he was but I didn\u2019t know how badly. We had been to the doctors and I had asked him to go back. He didn\u2019t like to talk about his feelings much but I\u2019d tried to get him to open up, his close friends had as well.<\/p>\n
But he wanted to be the one that was there for me, he didn\u2019t want to put any more on me. He had been devastated at losing Hollie, we all had. We still were.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was due to start a new job in telecommunications on Monday with his friend. He hadn\u2019t been able to work since Hollie\u2019s death and I really think this job would have helped him.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Gofundme fundraising page has been launched to help bring Robert\u2019s body home. It has already raised over \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n
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Daniella said: \u201cWe all loved him so much. He was hilarious, he could walk into a room and light it up. He was the most loving person. We are utterly heartbroken, we can\u2019t even put into words.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe children are the priority. We just need to get home now and begin the process of bringing Robert back. I just want him home.<\/p>\n
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: \u201cWe are providing support to the family of a British man who died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you need someone to talk to, call Samaritans on 116 123. Donate to the family’s GoFundMe here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniella Robb’s fianc\u00e9 Robert Davidson died after falling from a sixth floor hotel balcony in Torremolinos Caroline Barry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32555,42,103,43,138431,40,38,41,39,2521],"class_list":["post-288609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-funerals","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-news","tag-spain-holidays","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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