The wife of a hero dad who was savagely battered by teenagers defending an 11-year-old boy in a park describes how he cannot talk or look after himself a year later due to his horrific head injuries. Alan Willson, 47, was attacked by three teenage boys last Easter Sunday after they began bullying a child in a row over a frisbee.
After three youngsters were jailed yesterday over the brutal assault, Alan's wife Annie told how his "life has completely gone" and that he is a "completely different man" after being beaten with a logs of wood. The vicious 'life-changing' attack happened in Longcroft Park in Worthing, West Sussex, at around 7.30pm on April 4 2021, when the defendants were aged 13, 14 and 17.
As a result, even more than a year later, Mr Willson can no longer tell his children he loves them or play football in the park due to his catastrophic brain injuries, Annie said. Granddad Mr Willson was also left blind in is left eye and with hearing problems after the assault and is "locked in a strange body he doesn't understand".
