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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/injured-student-cared-for-cause.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Susan Meadows (right), the mother of Alfie Meadows, and her daughter Agnis, 14" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-injured-student-cared-for-cause.jpg" alt="Susan Meadows (right), the mother of Alfie Meadows, and her daughter Agnis, 14"/></a></p>
<p>The mother of a protester who had to undergo a three-hour operation after being hit on the head with a police truncheon during the fees demo has said the 20-year-old &#8220;cares passionately about the cause&#8221; and was not there to cause trouble.</p>
<p>Alfie Meadows, a philosophy student at Middlesex University, was struck as he tried to leave the area outside Westminster Abbey, his mother Susan, 55, said.</p>
<p>The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into the incident, but warned that inquiries are still at an early stage.</p>
<p>Mr Meadows fell unconscious on the way to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and had to have surgery for bleeding on the brain.</p>
<p>He is now recovering and doing very well, his mother, a university lecturer who was also at the protest, said.</p>
<p>Mr Meadows was with a number of friends, including two lecturers &#8211; Nina Power, a colleague of his mother, and Peter Hallward, a philosophy lecturer at Kingston University.</p>
<p>But as they tried to leave the area where protesters were being held in a police &#8220;kettling&#8221; operation, the second-year undergraduate suffered a blow to the head. His condition later deteriorated and he lost consciousness.</p>
<p>His mother said: &#8220;He said he had been hit on the head and was bleeding. He knew he had to go to hospital but he didn&#8217;t initially know how bad it was. The policeman offered to get him an ambulance but he was in shock and didn&#8217;t know how serious it was.&#8221;</p>
<p>She said she talked about the possibility of trouble with her son before the demonstrations.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s an extraordinarily idealistic and committed and political person. He cares passionately about the cause,&#8221; she said, adding that he had been to training sessions at the University of London. &#8220;They had been given advice on how to stay safe. He would never try to be a martyr.&#8221;</p>
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