A MAN has suffered serious head injuries after an assault in a residential street.

Neghbours in Comley Road, Moordown, heard the victim was hit with a brick following a disturbance.

They heard shouting and swearing around 7.30pm on Sunday as two men rowed on the road outside.

One of the men, thought to be a resident, ended up unconscious on the street with a bloody head wound.

Student Felicity Squires, 19, went out to help after seeing the man lying on the ground.

“I thought he was dead,” she told the Echo. She said the injured man’s frightened daughter was standing over him brandishing a pole to protect him. Another neighbour called the emergency services.

She said the neighbour told emergency services the man had been hit with a brick. “It was quite frightening,” she said.

Neighbour Tristan Langford-Jackson, 19, also a student, said the unconscious man had head injuries, adding: “There was quite a lot of blood.”

He said a woman in her 20s, thought to be the injured man’s daughter, was “crying and upset”.

Emergency services were on scene within minutes and the injured man was rushed to hospital by ambulance. Several police cars arrived and an area of the street was cordoned off. Police forensic officers worked through the night, and police were filming the scene on Sunday morning. The area remained cordoned off.

Police confirmed they were called to a report of an assault at 7.47pm on Sunday.

They said a man sustained serious head injuries in the assault and was being treated in hospital.

A man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault.

Police said investigations were still in their early stages.

They appealed for any witnesses to contact police on 101.