A 36 year old man was beaten severely and left for dead last night in the Walled City. Tensions in the city had been high earlier in the evening when a candlelit vigil was attacked by a mob in the city centre. The man, who has yet to be named, is believed to have been attending the vigil. He was discovered in an entry way adjacent to the Bishop Gate in the city in the early hours of the morning by a man returning home from work. According to a source at the hospital it was the swift action of this unknown hero that probably saved the man’s life.