Photographer: I was blinded in one eye for being gay
A man who had petrol thrown in his face in an apparently homophobic attack says he is "determined" to pursue his career as a photographer, despite now being blind in one eye.
Tyler Maddick, 20, says he was verbally abused by a group of men who pulled up behind him in a car and threw petrol at him.
The Swansea photographer, who already had problems with his vision, was afterwards told by a doctor that his damaged eye could not be saved.
"Instead of being fuzzy, blurred-out, vision, it just went completely black and that's when I realised, I'm actually in real trouble," he said.
Swansea police are investigating the incident as a hate crime and are trying to find CCTV of the incident.
This clip is originally from Clare McDonnell on Tuesday 16 September 2014.
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