Brit 'taken off life support' in Thailand after truck ran over his head

The mother of a British tourist who was left fighting for his life after a lorry ran over his head says the decision has been made to withdraw his life support. Ethan Lacey remains in a critical condition following the horrific incident. The 20-year-old is said to have fallen from a moving pickup truck at a junction in Pattaya, Thailand. His mum Kerry, 41, revealed she only learnt her son was in hospital when a fellow traveller he had befriended sent her a photograph of him lying in an intensive care unit. She had received no contact from her son for two days, and a friend in Thailand had reported him missing to police before Ethan's dad Kevin, 40, received the distressing image via Facebook Messenger last Monday. Kerry and Kevin immediately booked flights and have remained at his bedside ever since , reports Birmingham Live . After an alternative hospital with neurosurgeons on site initially agreed to treat him, medics requested a fresh CT scan and contrast scan of his body owing to internal bleeding. Following the results, the family were told Ethan was not "going to get any better" and that his only prospect of survival would leave him "bedridden", with doctors informing them they could withdraw life support should they choose to do so. At 1.45pm on 27 May, Ethan's life support was removed. He is currently breathing independently and has been transferred to a palliative care ward. The family are now continuing to raise funds to bring him back home to the UK. According to eyewitnesses, when Ethan emerged from a vehicle window, his head "went full force" onto the ground before the rear tyre ran over his head and shoulder. Kerry, from Birmingham, said: "Whilst we've been at home while he was away, we'd been speaking to him every day or every other day. One time, his phone got broken, so he actually got in contact with someone else's phone on Facebook. "When it came to Friday, 15, that was the last we heard of him. On the Sunday, I thought, 'that's a bit strange', so I WhatsApped him, and on WhatsApp it said he's not been seen since Friday. "On Monday around 5am a friend he'd met out there rang us through messenger screaming down the phone but she couldn't speak English. I put down the phone and messaged and said 'please tell me what's going on' and 'please send a photo', because I thought it might not be him. "She sent a photo and it was him in hospital – me, his dad and his nan got a flight straight over there". Ethan had been travelling through Bangkok after arriving to visit a relative two months previously, before later making his way to Pattaya. Kerry says Ethan was last spotted at a nightclub before the incident on May 17. She told Talk to the Press: "Witnesses said he was in a vehicle, some witnesses said he got thrown out of the window, some witnesses said he jumped out whilst it was moving and it went over his head. "We're not sure which way it happened. Witnesses said when he came out of the window, his head went full force on the ground, and the rear tyre drove over his head and shoulder, so one side of his whole body is broken." Ethan sustained three brain haemorrhages and needed a drain fitted to help treat a punctured lung. His father, Kevin, had initially found a second hospital prepared to accept Ethan's case, but they asked for further scans after the family had been told he was experiencing internal bleeding. "The other hospital phoned and said before he is moved, we need a new CT scan and contrast scan of the body because he had internal bleeding, but we'd been told that had stopped," Kerry explains. "They'd done the new CT scans and came back with the results – he wasn't going to get any better or severely better, the only chance was he'd be bedridden, so the doctor said now we could turn off life support if we wanted to". The family is now collecting funds to bring Ethan back to the UK. You can donate to the family's GoFundMe here . Ensure our latest news and sport headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. Click here to activate or add us as Preferred Source.