The parents of the young man who was attacked are expressing their relief that their son survived and are now pleading with the assailant to come forward.

The incident involving 18-year-old Beau Brownbill unfolded at 1 a.m. today on Hindley Street.

His mother, Megan, described the ordeal as “every parent’s worst nightmare.”

Witnesses reported that Beau was seen engaged in a verbal exchange with a man outside the Fabric nightclub. The confrontation escalated when the man left the queue to approach Beau.

What followed was a brief altercation culminating in a single punch.

Beau was left unconscious on the pavement, while the perpetrator quickly fled the scene.

“I want that gentleman to understand what he’s done is, he’s changed someone’s life forever, he’s changed our family’s forever,” father Tony said.

Beau was knocked unconscious and raced to hospital where he remains with a fractured skull and bleeding on his brain.

“He’s at the time of his life where he should be experiencing the best things in life, and this should not be happening,” Megan said.

Beau’s parents were told to prepare for the worst.

“They took us into a side room and we thought it was it for Beau and that was the end for Beau so it was very very distressing,” she said. 

While there have been encouraging signs in Beau’s recovery, the true extent of his brain damage remains unknown and only time will reveal what lies ahead.

Beau’s attacker is a stranger he says he’d only met earlier in the night.

No arrests have been made.

“You’ll get some pain in regards to what the law inflicts on you, take it on the chin like you gave it to my son on the chin,” Megan said.