AN East Lancashire teenager slashed across the throat and face with a broken bottle as he holidayed in a Greek resort today revealed he was singled out by the same attacker earlier on the same night.

The details of the assault came as Brennan Clemance, 18, revealed the true horror of his injuries, which will require months of treatment when he arrives home.

Brennan said he was headbutted just hours before the bottle attack incident in the early hours of Saturday morning outside a nightclub in Kavos, Corfu.

The resort has been trying to clean up its image after an alarming rise in violent incidents involving holidaymakers. Speaking from his hospital bed at a private clinic in nearby Corfu Town, Brennan, of Surrey Road, Blackburn, said: "He had headbutted me earlier in the night because I was talking to his girlfriend and the first thing I knew later was when I was walking to the club to find my friends.

"I saw one of them talking to this lad and trying to calm him down, then he pounced on me. He hit me over the head with a bottle which broke and I don't remember very much after that.

"I do remember being in a little clinic nearby and was laid down in there. There was lots of blood. My T-shirt was covered in it. It was supposed to be white but was almost completely red."

Brennan, who was enjoying a two-week holiday in the resort with three friends, is due to fly home to England tonight.

He underwent a five-hour operation over the weekend and faces months of treatment when he arrives home.

He said: "I took my bandages off for the first time yesterday because I had to see what was under there and I was shocked. I just thought I had a bump on my head but there is a cut which goes from under my hairline to just above my eye.

"I have another one which goes from the corner of my mouth to my ear, one on the other side going towards my chin, one across my throat from my Adam's Apple to where my glands are and a big Y-shaped one on my chest.

"It's horrible."

His 22-year-old sister Donna, who flew out to be with him on Monday, is hoping to travel home on the same flight. He will be taken to the airport by ambulance and met by another in Manchester where he will be transferred to a specialist hospital. She said: "His face is a mess. It looks as though someone has gouged him and twisted it around."

Brennan was interviewed by Greek police officers and gave a statement through an interpreter on Monday afternoon.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The Greek police are looking for witnesses to the incident and other evidence but are not in a position to give any details of their lines of inquiry at the moment."

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