VIDEO: Teenager left covered in blood and needing stitches after being attacked by a clown

Owen Russell, 17, was left with a head wound when a tree branch was thrown at him by a masked person trying to terrorise people as the ‘killer clown’ craze sweeps the country.

The schoolboy said he was lucky not to have been killed or to have lost an eye in the attack.

He said he and a group of his friends spotted the clown, who was wearing a mask with orange hair and a red nose and had a ‘sinister laugh’, on a path in Dinnington, South Yorkshire last night.

When challenged by the teens as the clown approached them, the masked attacker walked off carrying a branch before turning round and hurling it at the group – hitting Owen on the side of his head, and leaving him with a V-shaped wound which needed stitches.