Cally’s parents “We will not give up”

The parents of Cally Simpson have flown their daughter back to Scotland.

Four-year-old Cally remains in a medically-induced coma three weeks after being found unconscious at the foot of a Salou swimming pool.

Her parents Steven Simpson and Kate Miller were last week told it was “improbable” their daughter would ever wake up. However, the battling youngster flew into Edinburgh on Saturday morning on an air ambulance. She will now be examined by neurological experts.

Dad Steven, 26, said: “We arrived back at 4am yesterday. On Wednesday, the doctors in Barcelona told us that it’s likely Cally will never wake up. It was bad news, but we refuse to believe that can be the case.

“It is a children’s hospital, so the staff weren’t brain specialists who could tell us everything we need to know.”

Cally was pulled from the floor of the adults’ pool at the Hotel Villamarina in the popular holiday resort of Salou on June 23. There is believed to have been no lifeguard watching over the pool at the time of the accident.

She was taken to hospital in nearby Tarragonna, before being transferred to the Sant Joan de Deu children’s hospital in Barcelona, where her mum and dad have kept a bedside vigil for the last three weeks.

Now that they are back in Scotland, Cally will be examined by brain injury specialists.

Steven said: “We needed three different green lights before being able to fly home one from each of the hospitals and another from the air ambulance.

“We’ll do all we can to get Cally what she needs. If we have to go to America to save her, we will.

“We will not give up.