These shocking images show the horrific mystery injuries a man received after waking up dazed and bleeding in a front garden.
Richard Robinson, 55, still doesn’t know how he ended up with the injuries that required 54 metal staples to stitch his fractured skull back together.
Richard woke up at 8am on November 29 last year after a night out in Scunthorpe, North Lincs., celebrating the birthday of his brother Dennis Robinson, who had died the year before aged 61.
At around 3.30am Richard flagged down a taxi in Scunthorpe town centre to take him home.
He said: “The Queensway was closed for road repairs so we took the diversion via Ashby Road.
“I remember talking to the car driver.
“After we drove past the Queensway Hotel everything went totally blank until I woke up in the garden.
“To this day I do not know how I came to be there and how long I had been there. But my hands and knee were grazed as if I had been dragged along the road.
“My wallet and mobile phone were intact.
“I was feeling groggy, but managed to stagger home after asking a woman in Ashby Road for the directions.
“When I got home I took some aspirins and went to bed, hoping to sleep it off – but I could not sleep.”
“The next morning my head was still bleeding and my wife Tracy, who is an ex-nurse, drove me to Scunthorpe hospital.
“I was then transferred to Hull Royal Infirmary where I underwent emergency surgery.”
Richard, who is a grave digger for North Lincolnshire Council, was in hospital for five days and spent three months in total recovering from his injuries.
But a year on he’s still searching for answers as to how his injuiries happened.
Detective Sergeant Becky Dickinson, of Scunthorpe CID, said: “The incident has been extensively investigated, but at this time, officers have been unable to draw any conclusions about what happened to Mr Robinson.
“When further information came to light earlier this year, the case was reviewed and house-to-house enquiries completed. However, these also proved inconclusive.
“If any further evidence comes to light, we will be happy to reopen the investigation.”
