Manangement at Cape Town’s Mercury Lounge are looking for a young man who attacked another patron, fracturing his cheekbone.
|||Cape Town - Management at popular nightclub Mercury Lounge in Cape Town are looking for a young man who attacked another patron, fracturing his cheekbone.
An evening of partying on Monday in the CBD ended with a 24-year-old Parow man in the trauma unit, his cheekbone broken in three places.
He asked not to be named for fear of further problems from his attacker.
He said he had been dancing with friends when a girl accused him of harassing her and called her brother.
“About two minutes later her brother came up to me, shouting and threatening me, but after about five minutes I managed to convince him that it was a misunderstanding, and he seemed to calm down.”
He said he went over to the girl’s group to try to apologise again, and was hit by one of the men in the group.
“While I was speaking to her a male, who I believe to be friends with the two siblings, approached me, shouting, and before I could respond he hit me in the right side of my face with his forearm.”
“My head felt it was about to explode and I had blood pouring down my face. I received nine stitches around my right eye. I had a CT scan.”
He would require surgery, and his doctor suspected his eyesight might be damaged, but could not tell until the swelling had gone down.
Mercury Live owner Kevin Winder said the attacker and some of his friends had been banned from the club before for causing trouble. When he returned to the club they would lay a charge with the police.
yolisa.tswanya@inl.co.za
Cape Argus
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