TRNSMT horror as teen placed in coma after 'head stamped on' at Glasgow Green festival
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots teenager was left in a coma with swelling around his brain after a brutal assault at TRNSMT. Lee Paton was placed on a ventilator as medics scrambled to save him after he was knocked unconscious during a "vicious assault by two men who stamped on his head".The serious incident took place at around 3pm on Saturday, in front of the ferris wheel between the Main Stage and the Boogie Bar at the Glasgow Green festival.
The 16-year-old from Patna, East Ayrshire, had travelled to his first ever music festival with girlfriend Paige Borland, also 16, after the pair had secured a weekend ticket.But Lee's dreams of seeing headliner Gerry Cinnamon were left in ruins when he was rushed to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after the horror attack.
Lee was placed in an induced coma after he suffered blows to the head and a fractured eye socket, with his eye left severely bruised and swollen.His dad Tam Paton, 32, and mum Marie Dempsey, 39, rushed to Glasgow from Patna after receiving a call that is “every parent's worst nightmare”.Tam told the Record: “It was absolutely heartbreaking seeing him like that.
He was hooked up to a ventilator and completely battered and bruised, his face was a mess.“Lee was enjoying his weekend and then these thugs have left him for dead.
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