MYSTERY surrounds a "missing four hours" after a vicious attack which left a teenager in hospital.

Michael Belhomme, 19, was attacked after being approached by a group of four men on Blackburn railway station as he waited for his last train home on Saturday night.

He woke up in Blackburn Royal Infirmary four hours later but no one knows how he got there or what happened in the meantime.

Initially Michael thought he had been in an ambulance but British Transport Police have established no ambulance was called to the station that night.

"We've no idea what happened to him or how he was taken to hospital," said Stuart Edmundson, father of 19-year-old Natalie who is Michael's fiancee.

"We don't know if he was lying on the platform for hours or what. Some of his injuries made it look like he has been dragged somewhere."

Michael, who works for Tesco, suffered a badly bruised head, shoulder and legs during the assault.

He had been out for a game of bingo in Blackburn with Natalie, a student who lives at Brecon Avenue, Oswaldtwistle before trying to catch the 11.10pm train home to Manchester.

"All he remembers is these four men who he thinks were Sheffield Wednesday supporters coming up to him and asking him for a light.

"The next thing his family knew was when he rang them up to say he had been attacked but they are not even sure where he made that call from."

Michael was released after treatment at BRI but was readmitted to a hospital near his home in Manchester on Sunday after complaining of feeling unwell.

His main attacker is described as white, aged around 23, chubby with bleached blond hair in a side parting. He was wearing a blue Kicker shirt and denim jeans.

British Transport Police are investigating the incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact them on 01772 253682.

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