Daniel slowly opened his eyes. He felt the cold, gritty mud against his face. It was dark and the air smelled like damp moss and rain.
It took a few seconds for the searing pain to set in. The 40-year-old had no idea how long he’d been unconscious for. But with his head sliced open and part of his ear missing, he knew he’d been left for dead.
The activist had been checking on some badger dens in a woodland area when he was brutally attacked in Little Lever, Bolton, on April 28 last year.
