West End star blinded in random horror attack as thug smashes through windscreen
West End star blinded in random horror attack as thug smashes through windscreen
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A star of the West End has been left blind in one eye after a horror attack while waiting at traffic lights. Mike Holoway, 63, needed stitches in his right eye ball after a thug smashed a metal object through his van window in East London. The incident has left Mike requiring another three operations over a nine month period in a bid to save his eye sight.
Mike, who previously starred as the main role in Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat for four years, thinks his attack was an attempted robbery. The attack happened on December 18 with Mike calling the weeks that followed a "roller coaster". He explained on Instagram how his eye is stable but he says he has "many month ahead" for it to heal.
Speaking to the Sun, Mike described the ordeal, saying a man "smashed his first through the driver's side window". He said he was hit straight in his face and was knocked across to his passenger seat. "I had to have metallic fragments pulled out of my face," he said. "You think you know how you can react in these situations. But I saw stars. I didn't know what the hell was going on.".
It's thought the attacker was holding a knuckle-duster or small weighted metal object when he targeted Mike in his vehicle. A GoFundMe page, which was set up by Mike's wife, claims the traffic starting up again spooked the attacker who then sped off in his own van.
She wrote: "In a matter of seconds, Mike’s life was turned upside down and over this past month, between several trips to Moorfields for appointments and check ups, the gravity of the situation has started to sink in and at times it is overwhelming, made all the more frustrating finding out that within 3 weeks of this happening, the Met Police closed the GBH case due to there being no cctv in the area so there is no way of tracking the attacker - it is deeply unfair that justice won’t be served.".
