‘One hell of a brave girl’: medic’s praise for Briton in Zambia crocodile attack

Brent Osborn-Smith says his daughter Amelie is grateful to be alive and could return to UK this weekend

The father of a British teenager mauled by a crocodile in southern Africa has revealed he received a text message from a medic who was evacuating her from the scene by air, reading: You have one hell of a brave girl there, sir."

Amelie Osborn-Smith, 18, was left with her right foot hanging loose" and hip dislocated after a large crocodile bit her leg while she was swimming in the Zambezi river in Zambia during a break from a white-water rafting expedition.