November 23, 2024

Homeless man paid to have forehead tattooed ‘did it in desperation’

A homeless man living in Benidorm allegedly paid €100 (£89) by a British stag group to have the groom’s name tattooed on his forehead has said he accepted the offer out of desperation.

Tomek, 34, who met the group in the Spanish resort in May, said he was paid to have the words “Jamie Blake, North Shields, NE28” inked on his skin.

“When you live on the street, you’re hungry and you need to drink, that kind of money is like winning the lottery,” he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

“There weren’t 30 people there, like the British papers have said. There was just one person, who was as drunk as I was, laughing and taking photos. When I couldn’t take it any more because the part they were tattooing was just skin and bone, he looked at me and just said: ‘Go.’”

The Polish national said he could not understand why the tattooist had not refused the job when he saw how drunk he was. The pain, he added, had been excruciating.

“If it hurt me so much and I was totally drunk, I can’t imagine how much it would hurt someone who was sober.”

Tomek told the paper he had worked in the kitchen of a four-star hotel in Poland and walked all the way to Spain after splitting up with his girlfriend shortly before they were due to get married.

He said he had been robbed a few days before running into the stag party and was reluctant to go to the police.

“I thought the police would laugh at me and I didn’t think what they’d done to me was a crime, but now I know it was,” he said.

For more read the full of article at The Guardian

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