FRIENDS of a teenager who died last year after collapsing in the street have raised £5,000 for Southampton General Hospital's neurological intensive care unit (NICU).
Glen Plowman, 19, from Bitterne, Southampton, fell and hit his head on the pavement while enjoying a night out with friends in Southampton, just hours after he was attacked by two men while skateboarding.
Cheryl Smith, who works at the hospital and is the aunt of Glen's girlfriend Emma Richardson, helped organise the fundraising to say thank you to the hospital.
She said: "A group of friends were all together having a drink one evening when we came up with the idea that the husbands should do a Full Monty-style strip dance.
"They called themselves the Fool Monty and after lots of hard work the evening was a huge success.
"Their wives and girlfriends performed as the Spice Girls at a Stars in Their Eyes event they organised."
Dr Andy Eynon, director of NICU, said he was grateful for the money, which will go towards an intravascular cooling machine, which cools patients with severe head injury.
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