A British man has died from his injuries three months after he was attacked 'out of the blue' by a stranger while on holiday in Spain.
Retired carpenter Marshall Latham, from Nantwich, Cheshire, was left in a coma with life-changing injuries after he was punched and knocked unconscious while walking back to his apartment in Fuerteventura on December 10.
An inquest was opened into the death of Mr Latham - known as Marsh to his friends - at Warrington Coroner's Court last Wednesday.
He died on March 16 at the Walton Centre at Aintree Hospital, aged 68, three months after the assault which caused a traumatic brain injury so severe that doctors warned he was unlikely to recover.
After being transferred to a hospital in Gran Canaria, he had part of his skull removed, a tracheotomy and a drain on his brain to help ease pressure. Mr Latham also developed pneumonia twice.
