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Man Suffers Fractured Skull, Brain Bleeding, After Vicious Gay Bashing In Manchester

Family believes he was targeted "because of his mannerisms and the way he speaks."

A Manchester gay man was left for dead on the street last weekend in a suspected hate crime, the Independent reports.

Carl Johnson, 25, had recently moved to the Rochdale area and had gone out to make new friends. He was allegedly attacked by three men and a woman late Saturday night while walking home from a local pub.

Carl's brother, Mark, says that the attackers knocked Carl to the ground, punching and kicking him as he lay defenseless. “He had to curl up into a ball," Mark says. "Had they hit him a bit harder they would have killed him."

“He’s no fighter," Mark continues. "A gust of wind would blow him over.”

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Doctors say that Johnson—who suffered a fractured skull, broken jaw, damaged ribs, broken thumb, and bleeding on the brain—is lucky to have survived the assault. He remains at the hospital in a brain injury unit where he slips in and out of consciousness. “He’s not doing great," Mark says.

Mark believes that the vicious and unprovoked attack on his brother was a hate crime. “He is obviously gay because of his mannerisms and the way he speaks,” he says.

Carl, who faces up to six months in recovery, has spoken to police about his attack but could only give hazy details.

Mark has launched a Facebook campaign to help police identify the attackers or locate witnesses. “I’m in a desperate bid to get the people who did this into custody," he says. “We’re hoping on the goodwill and the humanity of people that something will come out of it.”

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