Joiner victim of violent unprovoked assault in Moldgreen

Jun 23 2009 By Sam Casey

Mr Donaghey said: "It pulled up and two guys got out. They came up from behind me, but didn’t say anything and they just laid into me.

"I tried to defend myself, but the next thing I knew I was waking up in hospital."

Mr Donaghey – who was found by friends who called an ambulance – needed eight stitches in his head and treatment for wounds all over his body.

He has been signed off work for at least four weeks.

"Everywhere I go now, I’m looking behind me, thinking they could be here," he said.

"I haven’t been out much, but if I go out I make sure I’m with mates."

He said he had no idea why the attack had happened.

"I’d had a bit of an argument about an hour before, but it was something and nothing and I remember who that was with and it wasn’t these people," he said.

His mum, Maxine, was woken up by a friend of her son’s banging on the door on the morning of the attack.

She said: "We rushed straight to hospital. When we got there he was in a complete mess.

"He’s not a bad lad – he doesn’t do drugs or anything and he was just coming home from a night out. It’s shocking."

Det Con Lewis said police wanted to talk to the driver of the white taxi. They also want to trace a driver, possibly in a green Mitsubishi car, who stopped to help Mr Donaghey.

Anyone with information should contact Det Con Lewis on 0845 6060606 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.