Father flies to hospital vigil for boy knifed over holiday kiss in Turkey

 
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Bo Wilson28 June 2013
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The father of a British teenager stabbed 17 times on holiday in Turkey was today due to fly out to join a family vigil at his hospital bedside.

Dwayne Ward, 17, was able to tell medics he was attacked and dumped in a public garden in the resort of Marmaris after he kissed a Turkish girl in a bar.

According to a police report, the boy, from Middlesbrough, said: “I was having fun while I was out and I kissed a Turkish girl at the bar I was in.

“I went to another bar and that was when they hit me in the head with a hard object. I don’t remember the rest.”

Dwayne, who was on holiday with his brother Darren, 32, and mother Doris, 51, is reported to have undergone a number of life-saving operations after the knife and razor-blade attack.

He remains in intensive care at the Marmaris state hospital. His mother said: “Dwayne is facing another operation. His dad’s flying out of the UK to be with him. I’m too distressed to talk about it.”

CCTV footage showed Dwayne being grabbed by his arms and pulled down an alley by at least two men in the early hours of Tuesday.

He was found at 7.30am, having been stripped naked and apparently tortured — with wounds to his throat, chest, groin, legs and back. A police hunt involving 270 officers led to two arrests after detectives studied 217 CCTV cameras covering Bar Street and nearby areas.

A man named locally as car cleaner Attilay Dincer, 26, was arrested and was being questioned yesterday. A second man, identified only as Ismail A, 24, was also arrested later.

The Foreign Office said: “We can confirm that we are aware of the hospitalisation of a British national in Marmaris on June 25. We are providing consular assistance.”

British tourists Anthony Gissing, 55, and Martin Webb, 69, drowned in the sea off neighbouring Turkish resorts.

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