A Scottish backpacker was “left for dead” in the street after he was brutally attacked by a taxi driver with a crowbar. Euan Fraser, 30, said the cabbie beat him unconscious on his doorstep leaving him with a bleed on the brain.
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| Euan Fraser |
He claims the attack happened after he got out of the car in Melbourne following what he thought was a harmless discussion about religion. Euan, from Dundee, Scotland, was knocked out and medics did tests which showed he was struck with a thick metal pole, like a crowbar.
He was forced to shell out £4,000 for his medical treatment and now suffers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Describing the incident, Euan said: “As I got out of the taxi I just heard footsteps behind me and heard a loud bang. “Then I felt this immense pain in my head and I was knocked clean out.
“I was laid into when I was on the floor. I was left laying there in a pool of blood. He left me for dead. “I woke up with blood in my eyes and my clothes were soaked. I stumbled into the kitchen and it looked like a murder scene. “I had never seen so much blood. My whole body was in agony. I was so scared. “I needed 12 stitches on my face and I had a few broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and a bleed on the brain.
“I was laid into when I was on the floor. I was left laying there in a pool of blood. He left me for dead. “I woke up with blood in my eyes and my clothes were soaked. I stumbled into the kitchen and it looked like a murder scene. “I had never seen so much blood. My whole body was in agony. I was so scared. “I needed 12 stitches on my face and I had a few broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and a bleed on the brain.
“It has totally changed my life forever.”
Euan, who stands 6ft 5ins tall, flagged down the yellow cab after a night out with a friend in Melbourne in June last year. He recalls how he and the taxi driver spoke “at length” to him about the driver’s Muslim background and he became visibly annoyed when Euan said he was an atheist. Euan, who was working on a farm at the time, argued that religion had “played a part in causing deaths and wars” throughout history.
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