Victim 'won't fully recover'

A TEENAGE robbery victim has been told he will never fully recover from a shoulder injury, which left him in Doncaster Royal Infirmary for three weeks.

The 17-year-old has just been released from hospital and has spoken for the first time about the sickening injuries he received in the mugging on a secluded country lane.

He will be off work for up to five months after surgeons carried out a bone graft to repair his dislocated shoulder. Doctors say full movement will never return.

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The youth, from Woodlands, who today asked not to be named, suffered the injury when a robber wrenched a bag from his shoulder as he walked along the ash path between Skellow and Woodlands on Friday, September 21.

He will be in plaster for several more weeks and has been warned he will almost certainly lose some movement in his arm.

Detectives today renewed their appeal for information about the robbery and issued a photofit picture of the suspect.The youth has no idea who his attacker was but is hoping he can be caught to be punished for the crime, which resulted in his bag being snatched but dumped further along the path with nothing stolen.

“I’m still feeling a bit rough and having to take painkillers,” he said last night, after returning home from hospital. “The surgeons have used screws to attach a piece of bone to the shoulder to stop it dislocating again. I’ve got it in plaster for another six weeks and it will be five months before I can go back to work.”

Anyone with information is urged to contact Det Con Richard Clarke on 01302 385140 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.