A critically-ill grandmother who was stranded in Bermuda because she had no medical insurance was finally back home with her family in England last night, and receiving the specialist neurological care she needs.

Sheila Hollinghurst was airlifted out of Bermuda thanks to a kind-hearted businessman who paid $89,000 for the emergency flight with a full ICU medical team on board. The anonymous benefactor responded to a desperate appeal by Mrs. Hollinghurst?s family after she suffered an aneurysm in her brain on Sunday while cruising to the Island on .

Dozens of other residents offered various kinds of assistance to the Hollinghurst family, but with the intervention of the benefactor, the offers were politely turned back.

The flight, which touched down in Mrs. Hollinghurst?s home town of Manchester yesterday afternoon saw her accompanied by a specialist team including a respiratory nurse and an anaesthetist.

It had to fly at low altitude because of the pressure in her brain, and stoped in Montreal and Iceland to change staff and pick up fresh medical supplies.

Although Mrs. Hollinghurst was yesterday still fighting for her life in Hope Hospital, Manchester, her daughter Amanda Turner said nurses had reported her mother?s condition to have been better than expected during the airlift.

Mrs. Turner told of her continuing anger at the British government for letting her mother down in her hour of need. ?I can only presume that each day my mum was in Bermuda was a day she would have been better off in hospital in the UK. Every minute was vital, but she was stranded in Bermuda for three days. I?m incredibly angry with the British Government for putting Mum in that position.?