A man who had one of his ears cut off when he was attacked in a park has described how doctors stitched it to his stomach in a bid to save it.
Student Paul Gibbs, from Leeds, was attacked by three men as he camped out with a group of Goth friends last year. Because the ear was not found for 17 hours, surgeons could not immediately reattach it.
Instead, doctors stitched it inside his stomach so some of the tissue will re-grow. The plan is to then reconstruct the ear using some of the cartilage from 26-year-old Mr Gibbs’s ribcage.
