Two months after being stabbed on a stag do in Portugal a Welsh dad is still unable to work and no closer to getting any answers. Alex Evans was "left for dead" for around an hour between some cars and a rubbish bin in a street in Albufeira, a popular resort in the Algarve, on May 15. The 33-year-old has no memories of the attack itself but when he woke up in hospital he was told he'd been robbed and knifed three times in the stomach.
Unable to stop his liver bleeding doctors rushed Alex to intensive care where he spent two days before a further eight days in Faro hospital. Meanwhile his distraught parents drove from their home in Treherbert to London desperately hoping they could get a flight out to Portugal and get to their son's bedside.
Alex's mum, Bev Evans, has described the moment she waited for her son after he was discharged from the Portuguese hospital. "He was walking holding his paperwork in one hand and his stomach in the other," she said. Because everything was conducted in Portuguese neither Alex nor his parents know the full extent of his injuries including how deep the knife penetrated his abdomen. "Since coming home we've tried different avenues," said Alex. "It's frustrating really – you just want to know more than anything."
