'I was left left for dead, brain damaged and semi-blinded by thugs'.

(From The Star (Sheffield))

Byline: Gail Robinson

But today 28-year-old Lun Min Chen is a shadow of his former self.The Chinese takeaway owner who fled communist Beijing 'for something calmer and better' has been left brain damaged, semi-blind and terrified after being brutally battered and then left for dead by a vicious gang of thugs."If there is trouble outside I would not go out, I dare not. I know I was almost killed that night," admitted Mr Chen, after four yobs were locked up for the vicious attack.Mr Chen, owner of Happy Garden Takeaway, in Lundwood, near Barnsley, was gathering evidence against yobs calling themselves the 'Lundwood Bad Boys' when he was set upon.The attack, on Mischief Night last year, was the culmination of intimidation by the gang, which had terrorised his business for months.Mr Chen was left critically ill in intensive care and in a coma for days and it was feared he would die from his extensive head and facial injures.He was in hospital for months and had to undergo skull and facial reconstructive surgery."I can't see properly and the heat or cold hurts my head because of all the metal plates in there," he said."I don't even have the strength to cook any more because I can't lift things, so I have to pay people to do what I used to."I know that if people from other businesses round here had not come to my aid that night they would have killed me. ...