A DEVASTATED mother has returned home after sitting at her son’s hospital bedside as he died in Germany.

Marie Heath, 52, has called for justice to be done in the case of Lee Heath, who was beaten to death in a nightclub.

Mr Heath, 31, suffered severe head injuries in an attack at the U60311 club, in Frankfurt, in the early hours of Easter Monday.

He died in hospital on two days later.

Ms Heath and his younger brother Danny, 28, flew to Germany to be by his side.

She has returned to the UK and will fly out again next week for his funeral and bring his ashes home. In the meantime Ms Heath wants the people responsible caught and punished.

She said: “I just don’t know where to turn. I need to make people know he was brutally murdered.

“What I had to face over there was horrific. I thought he was going to be bruised and battered.

“I got to the hospital and the doctor said he had only had a one per cent chance of survival.”

Ms Heath, from Silver End, who also has a daughter, Carly, 30, said he was “punched to bits” and had to be put into an induced coma.

Her younger son and her grandson, also called Lee, had spent time with him only the previous week, she said. Ms Heath, a driver for disabled people, described her 6ft 5ins son as a gentle giant.

Before the attack, he had been chatting to ex-Prodigy band member Leeroy Thornhill, from Braintree, who had be DJing at the club.

Lee moved from Hackney to Germany 18 months ago with his German girlfriend of seven years.

Ms Heath, who is planning a celebration of her son’s life near his former East London home on May 23, said he had enjoyed a good life in Germany working as a decorator and handyman.

A Frankfurt police spokesman said three doormen, aged 35, 32 and 29, had been arrested last Tuesday. He added witnesses had all agreed Mr Heath had not behaved in an aggressive manner.