A MAN still fighting for his life following a brutal attack in Oxford city centre last month has been named locally as former armed robber Eamonn Anderson.

A 56-year-old man was left with serious head injuries after a group of five or six men kicked him off his bike and attacked him in High Street at about 11.30pm on October 25.

Two sources said the victim, who remains in a critical condition in John Radcliffe Hospital, was Mr Anderson, of Salter Close.

Mr Anderson spent 24 years in prison for armed robberies and firearms offences. He appeared in the Oxford Mail after stealing a ring which had belonged to Oscar Wilde from Magdalen College in Oxford.