A British teacher is fighting for his life in a Thai hospital after a stranger savagely attacked him with a metal bar.

Adam Pickles, 40, is in a coma after the brutal assault which left him needing emergency brain surgery.

In a tragic twist of irony, Adam, of Bradford, West Yorks., who used to teach at a school in Wakefield, had only just recovered from a horrific motorbike crash.

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