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EXCLUSIVE Moment Brit is knocked unconscious after getting sucker-punched by Benidorm local while arguing with bouncers
This is the moment a British tourist was violently sucker-punched by a Spanish local after getting caught up in a brawl with Benidorm bouncers.
Footage taken by a fellow bar-goer shows the unnamed Brit being slammed onto the floor by another man in the Spanish resort on Sunday night.
According to an eyewitness, the man and his group were asked to leave the unknown bar by another reveller before a bouncer intervened and things got 'heated.'
The Brit, who is dressed in white, can be seen being shoved by a group of men, while his friend steps in.
As the exchange escalates, video shows the man being brutally punched in the face and falling on the floor, as his leg bends backwards towards his hip.
A woman wearing a pink cowboy hat rushes to his aid and crouches over him, as a group of men continue to scuffle with the bouncers.
An onlooker said: 'It's always the d***head Brits - it makes you ashamed to be a Brit sometimes.
'We'd been in there for two hours or so - it seemed a nice bar and all of a sudden we heard a bit of a commotion.
'There was a smaller guy who we think was a local and he looked like a bouncer but looked a bit too small to be one.
'He was asking them to leave, and then the larger bouncer came over and things got a bit heated.
'It looks like the smaller guy then knocks him out.
'He was out cold, and his leg looked dislocated.'
The condition of the Brit who was floored in the Benidorm bar fight is not known.
The bust-up comes just months after a British holidaymaker was left fighting for his life in intensive care after being punched by a bouncer in Benidorm.
Andrew Frazer, 43, was on a lads' break in Spain in November when he was floored by the doorman with a single punch in an alleged unprovoked attack.
His condition deteriorated after initial treatment and he had to undergo urgent surgery to have part of his skull cut away to relieve swelling on his brain.
Andrew had flown out to Spain with his brother Ian and four other friends to attend Europe's largest fancy dress party in the holiday destination.
Ian said that he had been three or four times previously to Benidorm's fancy dress festival which follows on from the Spanish resort's annual Fiesta, and regularly attracts 20,000 visitors.
He said: 'Some of the lads had not been to Benidorm before so we took them to a couple of places, and landed up in this bar.
'We were leaving at around 1.30am. Andrew was outside waiting for us in the road and we were following him out.
'He was on the kerb edge of the footpath, and this bouncer was stood in front of him and in his face.
'My brother was looking over his shoulder to see when we were coming out, and this guy just punched him and knocked him out.
'He fell backwards and hit his head on the road because he was out cold. I ran over and held his head.
'A British nurse who was walking past with her husband rushed to help and propped his head up. She was horrified by what had happened and stayed with us.
'The next few minutes were a bit of a blur until the ambulance and police arrived.
'I was concentrating on my brother, and saw the police were talking to the bouncer, but in a casual manner.
'A police officer said to me, 'Do you want to press charges?', and I said: 'Mate, I am concentrating on my brother.'
'My mate asked them to have a look at the CCTV on the building, but the policeman turned round and said, 'It's broke'.
'Andrew was unconscious for several minutes, but it seemed like an age. The paramedics put him in an ambulance on a stretcher and took him to hospital.
'One friend went with him while I ran back to our apartment to get his passport. Then I caught a taxi to the hospital.
'Our friend was talking to reception at the hospital for five or ten minutes to get him signed in, and was then shown to a room where he was.
'A nurse had him bent over and was putting seven staples into this nasty wound in the back of his head. There were no scans or anything.'
After paying a 200 euro fee to the private clinic, Ian took his brother back to their apartment in the taxi, where he slept on a sofa bed.
Ian added: 'The next morning he woke up and I told him I was going out for fresh air, and he replied, 'I'm OK, I'm alright'.
'I then asked him his name and he gave the same reply. Every time he was asked a question, he said the same words and nothing else.
'He managed to get up and took his clothes off before going back to sleep. After that, he woke up and was slurring his words, and he spent the rest of the day sleeping. I thought he was just concussed.
'We were due to fly home on Saturday, and it was clear on the Friday that he was not fit to fly, so we called an ambulance.
'It was a struggle to put him in the wheelchair because he was a dead weight. When he was at the hospital, he had a scan and they found a bleed on his brain.
'The doctor said that if he did not have an operation he would die, and he was transferred to a hospital in Alicante.
'He was put in intensive care and his condition seemed to improve, meaning he could be moved to a neurology ward.'
But things went downhill for Andrew after doctors said they had to operate him at once.
Andrew spent two and a half hours in surgery having part of his skull removed
Ian, a civil engineer, said: 'The neuro-surgeon told us that they have to wait for his brain swelling to go down before reattaching his skull, but that it could take up to one or two months.
Just nine days before ending up in intensive care, Andrew, a father-of-two, had proposed to his long-term partner, Carrie.
Carrie and Ian said they had formally reported the alleged attack to the Spanish police, but did not want to comment further, pending the investigation.
Ian said they had a number of witnesses to the incident including the British nurse who initially gave first aid to Andrew.
