A HAMPSHIRE student who fell seven storeys from a hotel in Mexico faces huge medical bills in a row with insurers.

Speaking tonight for the first time since arriving back in the UK for surgery to save his injured leg, Philip Pain, 20, admitted he had been drinking and could not remember going over the balcony.

But he insisted he did not jump and must have been sleep-walking.

The University of Southampton undergraduate, who was in Mexico as part of his Latin American studies, was in a coma for four weeks after suffering major injuries to his lower back, legs and organs.

An appeal was launched to bring him rare O-negative blood so he could undergo lifesaving treatment.

His family paid for a Mexican doctor to accompany him on the flight back to the UK.

But now travel insurers are withholding payments.