Assaulted man reunited with lifesaving crew

A man left with a severe brain injury and a shattered jaw after a random attack has been reunited with the paramedics who saved his life.

James Macmartin from Glasgow was walking home from a pub on Dumbarton Road on 26 September last year after a friend’s funeral.

The 47-year-old was attacked by a man who punched and kicked him into oncoming traffic, but he was missed by passing vehicles.

He has only been able to talk about the attack recently, having been reunited with Nikki Webster and Lynne Ruthven from the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) who attended to him.

Mr Macmartin spent three days in intensive care and 0 James Macmartin was attacked after a funeral

a further two weeks at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. Doctors performed an emergency operation when he was taken in and a dental surgeon inserted two metal plates into his lower jaw.

He said he is now thinking of becoming a paramedic, saying of the crew: “They saved my life that day.”