A TEENAGER’S body has been flown back to the UK after he died in Thailand.

Family and friends of Anthony Ryan raised £12,600 in a week after the 17-year-old died on holiday and did not have travel insurance.

The former pupil of Tong High School and Oastlers School was on his first holiday abroad and his family were told it would cost £8,000 to repatriate his body.

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The Holme Wood estate, where Anthony was from, pulled together and hosted a number of fundraisers while enlisting the help of X Factor star and former Holme Wood resident Danny Tetley to sing at a club night last week.

Business came forward to offer donations, hundreds of people turned up to a balloon release in the estate on Monday and then Danny Tetley performed at the Low Moor Club on Thursday night, helping to raise more than £1,100 in the process.

All of the money, plus more for Anthony’s funeral costs, was raised and donated in the week after he died in a motorbike crash and his body has now been flown home to Manchester Airport.

Kelly Calvert, from Holme Wood, led the fundraising efforts.

She said: “All we have wanted is for his body to be flown back.

“His mum has been sat with him all weekend.

“At the beginning people were saying ‘you will never get his body back’ and ‘you will never raise that money’, but when people pull together you can do anything.”

A Go Fund Me page was set up in a bid to raise enough money to repatriate the 17-year-old’s body after he travelled to Thailand without travel insurance.

The page had received almost £4,000 in donations early last week when Tariq Khan, of the Bradford-based Harris Solicitors, handed over another £4,000 to help fundraisers reach their total.

Mr Khan said he was moved by the story and was eager to help out after reading about the family’s plight in the Telegraph & Argus.

Anthony’s funeral is being planned by The Co-operative Funeralcare, in Legrams Lane.

The funeral is set to take place next week at St Christophers Church, in Holmewood Road, on either Monday, February 18 or Tuesday, February 19, with the wake to be held at the Hand & Shuttle pub, in Tong Street.

Anthony's mother, Clare Wright, has asked anyone coming to the funeral to wear something red.