Homeless man ‘lucky’ he didn’t die after gang attack

The swelling on Hussein’s face was so severe that doctors had to wait six days to carry out surgery on his jaw

Hussein suffered a broken jaw and nose after being assaulted in Dublin.

Doctors had to wait six days to carry out surgery on Hussein’s jaw, such was the severity of swelling on his face.

A group of men — up to six, Hussein thinks — jumped on him after he spent the evening with friends playing basketball in Dublin’s Mountjoy Square Park.