Natalie Creane left brain damaged but 5 star hotel where she was injured claim she leads normal life

By Tahira Yaqoob

PUBLISHED: 11:51 EST, 9 August 2012 | UPDATED: 07:26 EST, 10 August 2012

Since the accident Natalie Creane has been drifting in and out of coma in intensive care

A British newlywed left with a life-threatening brain injury after a TV panel fell on her head in a five-star hotel needs round-the-clock care, her family told a court today.

Natalie Creane, 33, cannot be left alone after the incident in the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi left her suffering epileptic seizures and a traumatic brain injury, her husband Trevor said.

He was summoned by a judge to give evidence in Abu Dhabi Higher Civil Claims Court as part of her 3.5million compensation claim against the hotel, which has denied responsibility and disputed her version of events.

But according to court records, the hotel used pictures of her wedding from her Facebook page to disprove her claims.

It stated: 'We have presented evidence showing she has continued with her lifestyle as normal.'

The statement added the claim was 'a figment of the claimant's imagination' and said it has supplied photos of the wardrobe and the panel that was said to have fallen, adding as it weighed 2.2kg, it could not have inflicted the injuries she described.

Any accident would have happened because the wardrobe had been tampered with, it added.

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