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Mother of 20-year-old knocked out cold by Eritrean thug asylum seeker with single punch urges police to track him down before he can attack again

The mother of a young woman who was knocked unconscious by a violent asylum seeker after she rejected his advances outside a nightclub has urged the police to find him.

Helen O'Brien could be heard gasping aloud in court as the footage of her daughter, Cleo Lake, who was 20 years old at the time of the incident, being punched and knocked out by Abdoela Berhan, an Eritrean national, was played.

Berhan, 35, was outside a nightclub in Bournemouth when he approached Miss Lake, now 21, and her two friends, but after they rejected him, he grew violent and attacked Miss Lake.

He failed to turn up for court but was found guilty of the assault, just a week after he was convicted of attacking a Subway worker, and remains on the run, with police saying only that 'enquiries are ongoing'.
 
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