THE parents of a teenager who died after falling from a hotel balcony in Switzerland have called for more people to become organ donors.

And they have spoken of their 'comfort' knowing others have lived through transplants after his death.

John and Liz Brierley, of The Green, Osbaldeston, spoke after the inquest into the death of 17-year-old son Edd, who died in July this year in Interlaken, Switzerland.

The inquest heard Edd was on holiday in July with his parents and had climbed outside his bedroom window on to a flat roof at the hotel for a cigarette.

He lost his balance and fell five floors. He was airlifted to a hospital but never regained consciousness and died from head and brain injuries.

John and Liz immediately donated his organs.All gifts in his memory went to transplant awareness charity TIME.

Liz said: "It offers us a crumb of comfort to think there some people walking can live because of the donation."

Edd, who was born in Whalley, spent four years at St Mary's Primary School, Mellor, before moving to Malsis Preparatory School in Crosshills, North Yorkshire. At 13 he went to Uppingham School in Rutland , where his father was an old boy.

East Lancashire coroner Michael Singleton recorded a verdict of misadventure