A MAN has been arrested three months after a brutal attack outside a Reading nightclub.

At around 3.20am on Sunday November 6 Kevin Gannace, 50, and Phillip Hind, 49, were walking towards the taxi rank by the station.

Halfway down the road they became involved in an argument with six women, leading two of them to slap Mr Gannace and prompting a group of men to rush to the outside of Revolution bar.

A fight broke out in which Mr Hind was knocked unconscious and left requiring stitches to the back of his head.

Mr Gannace was beaten so badly he was plunged into a coma after suffering a fracture to his skull and a bleed on the brain.

He has since been discharged from hospital.

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Kevin Gannace was left in a coma by the attack

Now Thames Valley Police has arrested a 30 year-old man from Thatcham on suspicion of gruesome bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Shortly after the attack Mr Hind, who grew up with Mr Gannace in East Reading, said he was worried for a friend he has known since primary school.

He said: “I am afraid at the moment.

“I think he is out of the danger zone but it is how it is going to affect him.

“He had a bleed on the brain and might have brain damage. I am absolutely gutted.”

The Thatcham man has been released on bail until March 31.