Independent police watchdog yesterday launched an investigation into the case of a 20-year-old students left unconscious bleeding on the brain after he by a police truncheon during Monday's protests hit.
Alfie meadows, a student of philosophy at Middlesex University, suffered a stroke, after he tried to leave the area outside Westminster Abbey, where students had been "kettled", when he by the police hit.
His mother, Susan Matthews, said yesterday that he had considered a lengthy operation, by. To add a friend Peter Hallward: "he is still in critical condition, but he is alive." His mother said it was the worst night of their lives.
Professor Hallward, lecturer, he said disoriented, second year undergraduate found in a confused state around at pm. "The surface wound was not great, but three hours after the stroke, he suffered from the brain haemorrhage," said Professor Hallward. "Survived the operation and he is he in the recovery room." In fact, he had a stroke last night. He could not speak or move his hand. But thanks to the wonderful medical care, he has come through it. It was frightening.
"He has tubes, which come out of it anywhere." He is in the hospital for a while, it was a very important thing. We are just incredibly excited that he has come through you. "It was the most enormous blow to the head."
Ms. Matthews said: said behavior, you felt "very strong" about police add: "it is a part of a pattern of style and way monitor these events." Alfie said to me before this happens is "Somebody killed to get". "It is very frightening."
Yesterday urged the independent Police Complaints Commission for witness, as it announced an investigation into the allegation that Mr met meadows by a police truncheon.
Student leader Mark Bergfeld, which the network education activist accused police brutality. Demonstrators place gave the Parliament conditions in "horrible" was how they were "kettled" until the early hours of the morning, he said. "I saw 14 out your friends with heads and things like the cracked."
However, some protesters were accused with tactics employed during the Toxteth riots in the 1980s. Officers reported students throw paint on your visors, force check, raise, and then follow it with rockets like rocks and snooker balls.
All 43 protesters and 12 police while the protest were injured.
Student protesters opens a new front on Monday as you turn your fire on the Government's decision to stay help for poor young people in school after 16 years to scrap.
They will combine lunch time with lecturers, demonstrations around the country against moves to exit to the educational maintenance allowance. The action is a protest meeting in Westminster and a Commons debate, the conviction of the coalition Government shift are followed.
This was followed by a promise two months before the election of Michael Gove, which is now the Education Secretary, a Tory Government would abolish the allowance.
Get under the EMA young people from poorer backgrounds to ?30 weekly to help meet the cost of their studies.
Ministers have said, it will be replaced by "more targeted support" and argued that payments to young people go the vast majority of EMA, which anyway would have remained in education. Some ?500m annually save AXING is EMA, that is to be scrapped for new applicants from next month, the Ministry of finance.
But supporters of the system argue that thousands of young people was leaving school at 16 essential to convince it. In parts of the Midlands and get North-West as many as four-fifths of the students, the allowance received the EMA during 88 percent of students from a background from Bangladesh and 77 percent of students from a Pakistani background.
Andy Burnham, the shadow Education Secretary, said: "the effect of this step is more immediate than the increase of university tuition fees." It would have devastating effects on the efforts of hundreds of thousands of children across the country.
"With the fee increases and the EMA movement have we a Government that the head of young people from less affluent backgrounds come away."
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