Help sought to solve injured biker mystery

THE family of biker Peter Harrison is appealing for help to unravel how he sustained serious head injuries. Mr Harrison was found lying in the middle of Mill Street, opposite Creasey's kitchen shop, at about 2am on Sunday.

It is understood he was on his way home from a nearby take-away when something went wrong. Police believe he had been there about half an hour.

Mr Harrison, who has injuries to the back of his head, was said this morning to be in a critical but stable condition in Southampton General Hospital.

'He is going to be sedated until tomorrow - we will not know anything else until lunchtime,' his daughter, Donna, said from the hospital last night.

'It looks better than it did yesterday and there are no major concerns from the doctors.'

She and her brother, Graeme, expect to be at their father's bedside for at least a week.

'I think the police are doing well - it's a very small timescale they are missing from when he left the take-out to when he was found and they are still trying to piece it together. My dad is quite well known and if anybody does know anything, we would like them to come forward.'

Inspector Rory Hardy, who is leading the investigation, said: 'We have not established how the injury was caused. There is no information or evidence to suggest that he has been the victim of an assault in any way but until we have eliminated that possibility, we will keep an open mind.'

Police have carried out house-to-house inquiries in the Mill Street area.

They have traced a number of witnesses and spoken to people who were with Mr Harrison the previous evening.

'Nothing has come to our attention that he was in any kind of trouble or had been involved in any incidents earlier in the evening,' said Inspector Hardy.

'We are monitoring his medical condition and hope to speak to him in the near future if he starts to make a recovery, but he is not in a position to speak to us.'

Mr Harrison, 49, a father of three, was wearing a black T-shirt with the Green Man Motor Cycle Club emblem, black jeans and boots and a biker-style sleeveless leather jacket.

He is more than 6ft tall, well-built and normally wears his trademark black bandanna.

Club members believe he spent the hours before the incident in the Golden Lion pub and went to a take-away before heading to his home above his business, Allsorts, at 32, Mill Street.

'I imagine he would have left at chuck-out,' said Boon, president of the Green Man MCC.

'The whole biker community is in shock, including every club in Jersey. I have had calls from Guernsey, Jersey and the UK from people of all ages.

'Everyone on the bike scene or who know him from his shop and on the music scene are all wishing him the best. We have arranged with one of the clubs in England for them to go and see him.'

He said there was absolutely no suggestion of it being linked to a biker feud.

'All the other clubs have called to wish him the best. He is a sound guy who will do anything for you.'

Inspector Hardy said: 'I would like to thank a number of witnesses who contacted us who have enabled us to start putting together the pieces of the jigsaw.

'If anyone was in that area who may have seen anything that they think may have been linked, we would like them to contact us. I would urge anyone with information, however small they think it may be, to get in touch.'