Man thrown from multi-storey

Jason Brown, 32, was found in a pool of blood at the foot of the five-storey car park in Buckingham Road, Worthing, near Allied Carpets, at 6.30am on Mon-day, with his sleeping bag lying nearby. His back is broken and he has suffered serious lacerations to the back of his head.

He told hospital staff the thugs grabbed either end of his sleeping bag and tossed him over the edge.

Speaking from his Worthing Hospital bed, Mr Brown said: "I just lay there for two hours until I could hear someone. They were the car park attendants and I called out 'help, help'. They called the paramedics and the only reason I knew it was 6.30 was because one of them told me."

Mr Brown, a dad of two, is originally from Chichester and used to run his own business. He was raised in Worthing '“ Thomas A'Becket '“ by his grandmother and returned to the town on December 6, because of the fond memories he has. A friend of his, from Worthing, died in a road crash on the A27 last year and Mr Brown wanted to visit the place where his friend grew up.

"I do not know anyone in Worthing," he told the Herald. " I am a stranger to this town. I only came here because I wanted to remember my friend and it was a change of scenery from Chichester.

"This is not the life I have chosen for myself. It is something that has happened to me.

"I am not a wino. I do not hang around the streets drunk. I know you see people like that but I am not one of them."

Mr Brown said he had been sleeping on the first floor of the Buckingham Road car park since he arrived in the town. He had been visiting the homeless day centre, run by Worthing Churches

Homeless Projects, daily and borrowed sleeping bags from them.

He praised the staff there but the manager of the charity refused to comment about what had happened when the Herald contacted him.

Mr Brown has no idea how long he will spend in Worthing Hospital or what his long-term prognosis is.

Jill Pedersen, spokeswoman for Worthing police, confirmed hospital doctors called the police when Mr Brown arrived because of what he said happened to him.