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Businessman seriously hurt in attack at club 
JIM DAY
The Guardian
A well-known Island businessman says he was seriously injured when several men attacked him on a dance floor in a Charlottetown nightclub.
Alan MacPhee says he was dancing with two women at St. James Gate late Friday night when four men jumped him. He said the men piled on top of him, pulled his sweater over his head, then kicked and punched him as he lay on the floor.
MacPhee, 47, of Charlottetown estimates he received 20 to 25 blows to the head. He took a taxi to the hospital where he underwent two separate surgeries to his right eye. He says the eye has sustained permanent damage. He also sustained injuries to his back and bruising on both arms.
MacPhee, who owns retail stores in Souris, says there were many witnesses to the alleged assault.
One of the two women who danced with MacPhee talked to The Guardian on the condition of anonymity.
She says she had met MacPhee a couple of times before Friday night and thought he was a friendly person. When she saw him standing in the nightclub by himself while she danced with a female friend, she invited him to join them on the dance floor.
“It was like one minute we were dancing and the next, from what I could see, he (MacPhee) was attacked by several males on the dance floor,’’ she said. “Basically, they kind of jumped him and took him to the ground.’’
The woman said she could not see MacPhee on the floor and assumed he was lying beneath at least three men. She saw one of those men throw four or five punches in rapid succession.
She described the men as “athletically built.”
The woman, who has given a statement to the police on the incident, said she saw no provocation on MacPhee’s part for the attack.
Charlottetown Police Deputy Chief Richard Collins says police were called to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Saturday morning to attend to a victim of an alleged assault.
He says police have interviewed three people to date and plan to question two persons of interest today that are alleged to “have some direct involvement’’ in the altercation.
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