A CLOSE friend of a teenager who was killed when she fell from a Magaluf balcony has hit out at “inhuman” anti-tourist signs in Barcelona mocking tourist deaths.

Georgia Hague, 23, who worked in the party town alongside Natalie Cormack, said the signs were “unbelievably cruel”.

Signs - urging British tourists to practise “balconing” - had been placed across Barcelona.

“Balconing” is the term given to the trend of climbing on to balconies from one room to another and has been blamed for several British deaths abroad.

Georgia told the Sun newspaper: “To think someone has put this much time and effort into promoting (and) encouraging tourists to risk their lives is unbelievably cruel, heartless and disgusting.”

Natalie, 19, from West Kilbride in North Ayrshire, fell to her death in April from an apartment balcony in Magaluf that has been dubbed the “walkway of death”.

One poster, seen in Barcelona and addressed to “dear tourist”, claimed balconing “prevents gentrification”, “improves neighbours’ quality of life”, “reduces the risk of heart disease” and “is lots of fun”.

Georgia also told the Sun: “I am completely shocked and disgusted.

"The past three weeks I have been working so hard on my Don’t Leave A Friend Behind campaign.

“It’s so heartbreaking to see someone has gone to these lengths to promote the opposite of this.

"I actually feel slightly lost for words about this inhuman act.”

The posters’ arrival in the city appeared to coincide with the creation of a “BalconingIsFun” Twitter account posting sick “jokes” about the spate of tourist deaths.

But the account has already been suspended by Twitter.

For the time it was active, it made twisted jokes about tourists leaping from buildings while drunk.

One post states: “Did you find a drunk tourist laying on your entrance floor? Be polite, take him to his balcony. The alcohol will do the rest.”

Another says: “Do the balconing! But remember to pay your stay first” and “Today is a balconing day! Celebrate it by leaping from your balconies.”