NIGHTCLUBBER Jon Worden is recovering after being attacked and kicked unconscious for the second time in six months.

The teenager spent 24 hours in Blackburn Infirmary following a brutal assault by thugs outside the Utopia nightclub, Blackburn.

The attack came just months after he was beaten up and stabbed outside a club in Penrith.

Jon, 18, of Rectory Close, Darwen, was looking for some of his friends outside Utopia when he was assaulted in Lord Square at around 2am.

He suffered severe facial injuries and was only saved from further injuries by a group of girls who tried to pull off his attackers.

Jon is suffering from constant headaches and will not be able to return to his job with Intack Self Drive until next Monday because of his injuries

He said: "I was shouting out my friends' names and asked this group of people if they had seen them.

"They started giving me abuse and then started punching and kicking me. "I blacked out and came round as I was being put into the ambulance."

Police are looking for two tall, slim men, aged about 20 who are believed to have carried out the attack. One was wearing a bright green, long-sleeved shirt.

The attack on Jon in Penrith last November occurred as Jon and a friend were waiting outside Blues nightclub.

He was approached by a group of youths who knocked him unconscious, tried to put a bag over his head and stabbed him in the ear.

Jon said: "I suppose I have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time twice.

"Neither nightclub was to blame but Blackburn can be a bad place to go out and I will just have to be a bit more careful about where I go in future."

Anyone with information about the attack outside Utopia can contact Blackburn police on 51212.

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