A young man was beaten unconscious with a brick by a gang on the first day of his holiday in Croatia before he was thrown into the sea.
Lewis Thomson was with four pals in Split when they were savagely attacked and chased by a group of around 20 men on the beach in the early hours of last Friday.
After getting separated from his friends when they tried to outrun the thugs, Lewis, from Grangemouth in Scotland, took the brunt of the attack when he was caught, reported the Daily Record.