A Luton mother is outraged that no-one helped her son Stephen after he was “hunted down like an animal” on a night out.
Special needs teacher Janice Jones of Sundon Park said: “Everyone just turned a blind eye.
“How could they ignore someone who so obviously needed help? It’s disgraceful.”
Stephen, 22, was badly beaten after trying to intervene in a fight outside the Blackbird pub.
The vicious assault left him with a broken nose and three fractures in the eye socket which will need two metal plates.
The Luton careworker, who had had four pints, said the row escalated when a girl claimed he called her a derogatory name. She rang her boyfriend who attacked him in a frenzy, punching him and kicking him in the head when he was down.
Stephen said: “I didn’t hit him back. I got up and asked him to calm down..
“I ran towards a kebab shop and the taxi rank and he followed and started hitting me again and again.
“I pleaded with the taxi drivers to take me home but none of them would.”
Luckily he saw one of his friends and got in her car. The police were called and he was taken to the Luton&Dunstable Hospital.
Mrs Jones said: “My son isn’t a fighter, he’s a peacemaker.
“It’s just mindless violence.
“And I’m really angry with the girl who instigated it. I was so incensed I wanted to go and get hold of her myself.
“But I think that’s just a mother’s instinct, to protect her chicks.
“We’re lucky he’s alive. It could have been so much worse.”
> A man was arrested and bailed to appear at Greyfriars Police Station, Bedford, on July 10. Anyone with information is asked to contact DC Emma Dahl on 101.