A man who was left blind in one eye and had his leg “snapped in half” by broom-wielding thugs in Cheam is raising money for a children’s hospital.

Daniel Lawrence was walking down Church Hill Road, where he was followed by three males, before being viciously assaulted in May 2017.

When they reached him they hit him several times in the face with a broom – causing multiple fractures to his face.

The attack left him blind in his right eye while he suffered a severely broken leg during the same incident.

But now the 41-year-old has since recovered and is trying to raise £2,500 for the Evelina London Children’s Hospital near Westminster Bridge in Lambeth.

Mr Lawrence, a managing director, will be running in the London Marathon for the hospital in April this year.

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The injury sustained to Daniel's eye

He said: “I was left blinded in my right eye, which I'm still blinded in, but my right leg was snapped in half as well.

“I've got a metal rod in the leg now but my leg was completely snapped - leg was pointing the other way, bone was coming through the skin.

Speaking about his recovery, he added: “It was slow to start with. The eye [injury] affects your depth perception, your spatial awareness, and things like that - which is still affected now. It's not as bad as it was but it's just a matter of getting used to things like that.

“I was on holiday recently and I was trying to pour some soup into a bowl from the ladle, I missed the bowl and poured this boiling hot soup all over my hand.

“It's just little things like that, it's your depth perception. If I'm trying to pour some milk into a cup I might miss.

“It's not as bad as it was when I first had it but it's little things like that. Just silly things, it takes getting used to.”

Despite suffering a broken toe last November, Mr Lawrence is determined to compete in the London Marathon.

He has been going to the gym regularly to improve his fitness while raising awareness of his cause in the months leading up to the event.

The 41-year-old wants to fundraise money for Evelina because he has been impressed with their work, particularly for those he knows.

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Daniel since the attack

Mr Lawrence said: “The Evelina children's hospital do a lot of work for children, they diagnose sick children but they don't have the recognition the larger ones - like Great Ormond Street Hospital - have.

“One of my friends that I've known since I was nine years old has a son that, when he was about one or two, was very, very sick.

“Local hospitals couldn't diagnose him and couldn't work out what was wrong with him but Evelina did that.

“That's how I'm aware of them and why I'm doing this.”

You can donate to his cause here.