Campaign to help attacked homeless man Igor passes two-thirds mark

Well-wishers have raised more than two thirds of the £3,000 needed to help Igor Gieci get back on his feet.
By The Newsroom
Published 4th Oct 2018, 10:01 BST
Updated 5th Oct 2018, 00:12 BST
Igor was attacked as he slept in his tent on the Promenade at Blackpool (Picture: Mark Butcher/Facebook)Igor was attacked as he slept in his tent on the Promenade at Blackpool (Picture: Mark Butcher/Facebook)
Igor was attacked as he slept in his tent on the Promenade at Blackpool (Picture: Mark Butcher/Facebook)

A campaign to help the 55-year-old homeless man was launched after he was seriously hurt in an unprovoked, prolonged, and brutal attack in the early hours of Monday – as he slept in a tent on Blackpool’s Promenade.

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The rest, campaigners hope, will pay for a six-month tenancy and furnishings – while employers have been urged to come forward too.

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Mr Gieci has been flooded with offers of help, and has been given food, furniture, medicine, glasses, and a hair cut. He has been staying at a holiday flat for free since the assault.

“In the short term we want to get his health back,” Mr Butcher said. “But the mid-term plan is get him back to work because that’s the only way he can sustain himself.”

Det Con Adam Weaver, from Blackpool CID, said: “This was a brutal and sustained assault on a vulnerable man and I would appeal to any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward and speak to us.”

Anyone with information can call police on 101, quoting log number 0635 of October 1, 2018. It can also be reported anonymously to the charity Crimestoppers by calling 0800 555 111.