Hartlepool grandmother says deportation from Australia could be FATAL
75-year-old Fran Davies was denied a permanent visa despite living in the country for seven years. Authorities say she's too ill to stay.
A Hartlepool grandmother who's facing deportation from Austrialia says the move back to the UK could kill her.
Fran Davies has lived in the country for seven years after moving there not long after her husband died.
Authorities say the 75-year-old is too ill to remain in the country and have denied her application for a permanent visa.
They say her poor health would make her a burden on the country's health system.
The grandmother suffers from a blood condition and she says making the move back to the cold UK would make her condition worse.
She has no family in the UK and says coming back would leave her with nothing.
She said: "I gave my home up seven years ago.
"Furniture was sold, the house is gone and I came over here.
"I have nothing to go back to at all, nothing.
"I haven't got the money to set another home up, I'm just living off my pension from the UK.
"It would be really fatal for me to go back."
Her family are now fighting to appeal the government's decision.
Her daughter Karen Brabham has been told it could be a matter of weeks before her mother is deported.
They've set up a petition, which already has over 3000 signatures, in a bid to get ministerial intervention in the case.
You can find the petition HERE.