VIDEO: Teenager slashed by bottle 'was millimetres from death' (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

VIDEO: Teenager slashed by bottle 'was millimetres from death'

5:09pm Friday 30th July 2010 in

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Throat-slash victim Isaac Brown today told how he came within millimetres of death when he was viciously attacked hours into a sunshine isle holiday.

The strapping rugby player is back home in Bradford after surgeons in Cyprus carried out a four-hour operation to repair life-threatening wounds.

Isaac, an academy player with Super League rugby club Huddersfield Giants, had only been on the island for five hours with friends when he innocently got caught up in a confrontation between a group of locals and foreign tourists in the resort of Aiya Napa.

The 19-year-old had his throat cut from behind his left ear to underneath his jaw with what is thought to have been a broken bottle.

At his home today, he said: “I was told that if the surgeons hadn’t been able to operate within 45 minutes, I wouldn’t have been here. The surgeons said the wound was millimetres away from a main artery, which would have been it for me."

Read more of Isaac's story in Saturday's T&A