Lad, 18, seriously hurt by bouncer shove while breaking up Malia street brawl

A TEENAGER suffered a serious head injury after being “pushed” by a bouncer as he tried to break-up a street brawl outside a bar in Greece.

Lee Haughian, from Lurgan, Northern Ireland, is being treated for a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain after being “knocked unconscious” by the doorman last week.

The 18-year-old was on a night out with pals in Malia, Crete, when he spotted a group of British lads fighting and stepped in to help, it’s reported.

His distraught mum Annmarie, 40, jetted out on Friday and has been by her son's bedside ever since.

She is now crowdfunding to raise money to get him home after being told he could not fly.

The mum-of-three told Belfast Live: "Lee went to a cocktail bar and a group of English boys were fighting and Lee tried to break it up but as he was going into the bar one of the bouncers pushed him to the ground and knocked him unconscious.

"Lee was taken to the medical centre in Malia but after that I don't know much about what happened in those hours but when I called the hotel they were fantastic and got him to a hospital in Greece.”

Lee was on holiday with 25 friends in Malia, a resort popular with British stag and hen parties.

Annmarie has been told it could cost around £900 to get her son home – but he won’t be fit to fly for a month.

She added: "It is so hard, the language barrier makes communication difficult, he was in the neurology ward but no one speaks English, there are a few broken words. It's very hard, it's scary.

"My focus is on getting him strong enough to leave here and stay somewhere until he can do the journey.

"The journey home would be a lot for him, he would not be fit yet so we need to give him time to heal."

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Lee was injured in the altercation last Tuesday and he was due to fly home today Monday.

Already the community has raised almost £3,000 for the family and Annmarie said she was overwhelmed by the support for her son, a former pupil at St Ronan's College in Lurgan.

She said: "This is his second holiday with friends and it was a last minute thing and I just knew it was not meant to be. He only got out on the Monday and this happened on the Tuesday and he was due to fly home today.”

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