‘A punch from a stranger changed my life forever’

In 2009, a punch from a stranger changed Brian Hogan’s life forever.

‘A punch from a stranger changed my life forever’

“Almost eight years ago now when I was 32, I was living in the UK and I was working as a senior quantity surveyor. I was fiercely independent, running quite large multi-million-pound projects.

“One evening I was out in Nottingham in the city where I was living and I was punched in the face by a random stranger who tagged along to my group, thinking he could come along to a house party. When I told him I didn’t know who he was and he couldn’t come, he punched me. I fell back hard and I hit my head on the kerb.

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