A PENSIONER found unconscious in a suspected robbery said he feared his ribs had been broken in an attack.
Timothy Corcoran, 75, was walking home when he says he felt someone hit him on the head.
He was knocked unconscious in the incident in Summit Way, Bitterne, and found by his son and a stranger later on.
The incident happened at around 9pm when he got off a bus having travelled home from an evening with friends and his son at a pub in the city centre.
He was only a few minutes away from his home of 50 years when he said he was attacked.
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The 75-year-old told the Echo: "I can't remember clearly, but I felt someone hit me in the head.
"I collapsed just at the end of his road.
"Police think that someone was following me from the bus stop."
He added: "I'm more angry than anything else.
"The fact that I've lived here so long and I've never even had as much as a parking ticket in my life, let alone anything else.
"And now we've got to the stage where I'm too scared to go outside the front door.
"I'm not going to go out now, not for a couple of days."
Around £95 was missing from the jacket he had been wearing.
The dad-of-four added: "My son was under the impression that it was because I had a drink.
"He and the other guy put me straight to bed."
But when he woke up in the morning he felt a sharp pain in the left side of his chest.
He said: "I had a stab-like feeling the next day and thought I broke my ribs or punctured one of my lungs, but it turns out that it was just really badly bruised."
The entire ordeal shocked him, and he is too scared to leave the house on his own now.
He has lived in Summit Way for around 50 years having moved there with his wife Sue, who sadly died five years ago after a cardiac arrest.
The incident took place between 9pm and 9.30pm.
Police are appealing for witnesses. Anyone with information is urged to call Hampshire police on 101, quoting reference number 44230019047.
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