I couldn’t even go to the bottom of the garden. “I lost control, chucking tables and chairs around, and screaming, ‘I want to die’. “For the next month, I wanted to die,” he said. Too scared to stay in Manchester, fearing it might happen again, he moved back in with his parents in Newark. Sam (left) with his brother Jake and friend Kirsty, at the Boardmasters Festival, in Cornwall, in August 2015.Īfter taking internal swabs, blood tests, and photos of Sam’s cuts and bruises, the police officers - who he said were “brilliant” - took the clothes he had been wearing when he was attacked. A friend in need, is a friend in, deep Throwing in the towel. I usually tell the stories, but I love it when I make you part of the process too Click here to submit your own. Jan said: “It was horrific to hear what had happened. These stories are submitted or inspired by viewers. Sam’s girlfriend phoned his mum Jan, and care homes manager dad Gary, both 49, who drove to the flat in Manchester. “I had the same clothes on and smelt of the blokes. “I wasn’t interested.”Īfter officers arranged for him to have swabs taken later that evening, to collect evidence, he was told he could not wash. I wanted to shower but they said no.”Īll three of them were interviewed by police, who then drove Sam to the place where he remembered seeing car park arches, after leaving the hotel - hoping to pinpoint the location of the crime. “It was only the thought of my family, that it would have destroyed them, that I thought, I can’t do it to them.”īack home, he broke down as he told Brady and his then girlfriend-of-18-months, who does not want to be named, what had happened. He recalled: “I took some cash out to pay my rent.
Left with internal cuts and bruises, Sam remembers staggering home, in a daze. Sam with his friend Brady, who was with him on the night out before the pair got separated.