‘I only recognised him from the Breitling watch I bought him’
VICTIM’S SON DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS HIS DAD AFTER SAVAGE ATTACK
A HEARTBREAKING image shows the horrendous injuries suffered by a pensioner who was attacked in his own home.
Alan Dyke, 69, was a successful engineer working on oil refineries all over the world, but in May this year he was beaten in a savage attack in his home.
He had only just moved into a new house in Spring Bank in west Hull, and was still working, when the incident happened.
His family say he now has memory loss and repeatedly asks what day it is, and whether he has eaten, after suffering facial and head injuries, which saw him kept in hospital for six weeks.
Son Cameron Dyke said his dad had been found barely conscious after the attack.
He was rushed to Hull Royal Infirmary with multiple facial fractures and a bleed on the brain.
Cameron said: “I wasn’t allowed to see him until the day after the attack.
“When I went to see him, as you can imagine from the photos, it was heartbreaking to see my dad in such a state.
“I only recognised him from his Breitling watch I bought him, which he was wearing in the hospital bed.”
He said his dad is now forever changed following the attack.
He said: “Since the attack, his memory has been declining rapidly.
“He asks me the same repeated questions such as, what day is it? “And then he can’t remember what he had for food.
“He remembers his life before the attack such as people, his working life, but nothing that’s happened recently.” He said his dad previously worked all over the world, visiting America, Canada, Germany, Holland and Norway, but now he is unable to work and has even lost his home, having to now live in supported accommodation helped by a local charity.
Two people have been charged in relation to the incident and are awaiting trial next year.
He remembers his life before the attack such as people, his working life, but nothing that’s happened recently Cameron Dyke