A TEENAGER has told how he was viciously attacked  with a crowbar without warning just yards from his home.

Sean Mead, 17, said two Asian men punched him and hit him with the crowbar during the unprovoked early morning assault.

Despite suffering a fractured leg, arm, cheekbone and eye-socket during the sustained beating - which lasted several minutes - he managed to reach his front door.

His attackers fled after he banged on the door and it  was answered by his father Tony Mead, 48, dressed only in boxer shorts.

The student, who lives with his parents in Thornfield Grove, Middlesbrough, now faces surgery on his cheek and eye-socket while his arm will be in a plaster for six weeks.

Sean, who will miss a week’s studying, explained he had spent the evening at a fair and hanging out with his friends.

“Two lads came running up and I said, ‘all right,’ thinking I knew them.

"They didn’t say a word and the first one just punched me. The second one had a crow bar and hit in me in the leg first, then my arm and then my face.

“I tried to defend myself and get to the house and when my dad came they ran off. The ambulance came and got me from the doorstep and the police interviewed me in hospital.

“It hasn’t sunk in properly. It’s the randomness of it. It was just totally out of the blue. I’m all right, but I don’t like walking anywhere by myself any more.”

The attack happened at 2.20am on Saturday (June 1).

His father Tony said: “I was in the house when I heard running and then Sean shouting, ‘dad, dad.’

"This kid was just laying into Sean. He ran as soon as I got to the door, I didn’t see the other one. It was a vicious, random attack. I just hope they’re caught by the police.”

Both the men were described as Asian and one was wearing a red top. Police would like to hear from any witnesses, particularly the driver of a car who stopped to offer assistance.

Detective Constable Gerry Ironside of Middlesbrough CID can be called on the non-emergency number 101.