CITY BUILDER IN HAMMER ATTACK HORROR; Thug leaves victim with fractured skull: Builder's racist hammer attack horror.Byline: Emma Stone A COVENTRY builder is lucky to be alive after a thug fractured his skull with a lump hammer A lump hammer or club hammer is a heavy one-handed hammer with a double-faced head. It is useful for light demolition work, driving masonry nails, and for use with a steel chisel when cutting stone or metal. during an unprovoked racist attack. Ranbir Hayer has been told by doctors he could have been paralysed by the savage assault. It happened while he was building a wall in the front garden of a home in Walsgrave. The bricklayer was struck on the back of his head, dangerously close to his spine. He has been left with continuous headaches and was una- ble to feed himself in the days following the incident. The married 26-year-old was working on in Hall Lane with a colleague when two men walked by and shouted racist abuse. Moments later they returned and launched a sickening attack on the pair. During the attack, one of the men picked up the lump hammer Mr Hayer had been using. Mr Hayer said: "When hewas swinging the hammer at me, I kept stepping back. With the first swing he hit my finger and then he missed with the second. By this time I had my back against the wall we had built - I had nowhere to run." The attacker smashed the 3lb hammer against Mr Hayer's skull, knocking him unconscious and leaving him with a fractured skull and severe bruising bruising discoloration and actual hemorrhage at the site of injury, and a serious disadvantage in the meat trade. In the first 12 hours after injury the bruise is bright red, at 24 hours it is dark red, at 24 to 36 hours it loses its firm consistency and becomes watery and at 3 or . The assault happened at 5.30pm on March 30 and the victimwas rushed to University Hospital, Walsgrave for treatment and the attackers fled from the scene. Mr Hayer said: "When you go out towork you don't expect someone is going to hit you with a lump hammer. "I'm a little bit scared now, I'mwatching out when I go out. "I'm having continuous headaches and for the first few days I couldn't sleep. One side of my head is bruised bruise v. bruised, bruis·ing, bruis·es v.tr. 1. a. To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow. b. , and so is my chest and shoulder, so I couldn't lie down. "I've had to stay sat up." The self-employed brick layer has been unable to work since the attack and has had to cancel thousands of pounds worth of upcoming work as a result. "When I eventually go back to work, it will cross my mind and I will still be forever though, I still have to go out and earn some money," he said. Anyone with information is urged to call CID Cid or Cid Campeador (sĭd, Span. thēth kämpāäthōr`) [Span.,=lord conqueror], d. 1099, Spanish soldier and national hero, whose real name was Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar. at Stoney Stanton Stoney Stanton is a village in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of about 3,500. It constitutes a civil parish. The village is on a rocky outcrop and was the site of a quarry, which was closed in 1958. Road police on 0845 113 5000. CAPTION(S): DRAMA...The road where the sickening attack took place. TERROR... Ranbir Hayer, who asked for his face to be hidden, the victim of an attack with a lump hammer. Inset, his injuries. |
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