<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A teenager is in hospital with serious brain injuries after he was coward punched by a stranger outside a popular </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/adelaide" rel="" target="" title="Adelaide"><span>Adelaide</span></a><span> nightclub.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The victim's parents say they thought they'd lost their boy and are now begging his attacker to hand himself in. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The attack on Beau Brownbill, 18, happened at 1am today on Hindley Street.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/aukus-shipyard-gets-multibillion-government-investment/b4f145f1-e7f7-4732-bcc5-83d075e9ed37"><strong><span>PM makes 'downpayment' on $30 billion shipyard to build nuclear submarines</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His mother Megan said it was "every parent's worst nightmare."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was seen exchanging words outside Fabric nightclub with a man whoe left the queue to confront Beau.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A scuffle followed and then one punch.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/adelaide-one-punch-attach-nightclub/57730430-d00c-493b-91d7-f63576d7d7f5" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Beau was left lying on the concrete as the man fled.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I want that gentleman to understand what he's done is, he's changed someone's life forever, he's changed our family's forever," father Tony said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-ebike-crash-sadlier-man-critical-condition-allegedly-fleeing-police/a21b3ea2-1165-4d27-bc86-cbdfd7f0f65a" rel="" target="" title=" Man critical after crashing e-bike while allegedly fleeing police"><strong><span>Man critical after crashing e-bike while allegedly fleeing police</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Beau was knocked unconscious and raced to hospital where he remains with a fractured skull and bleeding on his brain.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He's at the time of his life where he should be experiencing the best things in life, and this should not be happening," Megan said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Beau's parents were told to prepare for the worst.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They took us into a side room and we thought it was it for Beau and that was the end for Beau so it was very very distressing," she said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While there have been encouraging signs in Beau's recovery, the true extent of his brain damage remains unknown and only time will reveal what lies ahead.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Beau's attacker is a stranger he says he'd only met earlier in the night.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No arrests have been made.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/two-men-stabbed-in-sydney-police-hunt-gang/fbc2f0ed-58f6-479f-a77c-69fc5a9d33ff" rel="" target="" title=" Man dies after Sydney stabbing, after two other men rushed to hospital"><strong><span>Man dies after Sydney stabbing, after two other men rushed to hospital</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You'll get some pain in regards to what the law inflicts on you, take it on the chin like you gave it to my son on the chin," Megan said.</span></div></div>