A hero healthcare worker rushed to the aid of a battered boy after he was attacked in a children’s play park at Ayr beach.
Jane Peacock, 58, provided first aid care to the lad who was knocked out cold for at least 30 minutes after being ambushed by a gang of thugs at the busy kids park.
The injured boy, who was 19, was “lucky to be alive” after the viscous attack in which he was also robbed.
The terrifying assault and robbery took place whilst the park was packed with young children, babies and their families who watched on in horror.
The nursing assistant from Ayr was helped by her daughter Deena Peacock, 32, also a nursing assistant, after the pair witnessed a boozed up group of 30 youths charge on the frightened victim.
Jane raced over as the boy lay on the ground and she shouted for the police to be called.
The group of yobs then fled the scene as the mother and daughter desperately provided emergency care whilst waiting by him for an ambulance.
Jane said: “It was pandemonium by the time me and my daughter got there we could see the boy lying on the ground.
“I just shouted somebody phone the police and the group ran off right away.
“The boy was out cold, he was unconscious for at least half an hour.
“We sat with him, put him into the recovery position and checked his pulse and breathing.
“He started shaking I was panicking worried he was going to have a seizure.
“I asked the police to give him a blanket, he was bleeding from inside his mouth, he had a mark on the front of his neck.
“We think he’d took a knock to his head but he was lucky he had fallen on the soft ground in the park – it could have been worse, what if he had fallen on concrete or stones?”
Jane said the boy from Blantyre in Lanarkshire was walking past with another friend when he was taunted by the large group of youths.
She added: “He looked scared, they were sitting on the wall and he had no idea why they were shouting stuff over at him.
“He ran across to try and cut through the children’s play park but that’s when they all chased him into the park and started on him – it became a free for all.
“I just had to run over, the first thing I thought was what if that was one of mine.”
Cops have launched a probe into the attack after dealing with a spate of incidents on the shoreline during the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend.
Hundreds of revellers headed to South Ayrshire beaches to bask in the hot weather.
Superintendent Gillian Grant said: “The vast majority of people went about their days in a safe and responsible manner.
“However, it is disappointing that a small but significant minority became involved in acts of disorder.”
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Enquiries are ongoing into an assault and robbery of a 19-year-old man at a ramp onto Ayr Beach off the Esplanade.
"The incident happened between 6.15pm and 6.30pm on Saturday, June 4.
“Anyone with information can call 101, quoting incident 3450 of June 4."
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