A WORCESTER stag-night reveller who lay undiscovered for more than 48 hours after falling through a roof is still fighting for his life in hospital.

Tom Wilkes went missing from Tramps nightclub at around 1am on Sunday morning, and was not found until a lorry driver came across him at a city fruit market in the early hours of yesterday.

It is believed he fell through a skylight at the Cromwell Street fruit market and plummeted around 15 feet on to a concrete floor, sustaining horrific head injuries.

His parents, John and Christine, of Sedgley, West Midlands, have been conducting a bedside vigil at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where Tom is in a critical but stable condition.

The worker who found him said he thought Tom was dead when he found him in a pool of blood at a fruit market.

Lorry driver John House, of Bransford Road, Worcester, who made the discovery on the first floor of the building, said at first he thought the 21-year-old was a burglar or tramp.

"I came outside to lock up when I heard a groan, which was quite faint," he said.

"I shouted out to see if there was anyone there, and said if there was they were going to get locked in.

"I knew it was a person, so I fetched the night watchman from the building site.

"We went upstairs and I could see someone there, but I thought it was a tramp, so I went closer and saw blood coming out of his head. I thought he was dead, to be honest, but we called the ambulance and police.

"I had no idea someone had gone missing the night before, but we had all been working here yesterday."

Tom had been celebrating with friends and family at his cousin Daniel Field's stag night.

The group had been for a meal at The Cricketers pub in Angel Place before moving on to Tramps, and were due to stay at the Maximillian Hotel in Cromwell Street.

Paul Dean, general assistant at the hotel, said other members of the group waited up half the night waiting for Tom to return.

Tom's cousin also spent Monday evening showing a picture of him around city centre bars in a desperate bid to discover his whereabouts.

Family friends said Tom is a likeable person who seemed popular, and avoided trouble

"He is a really laid-back lad who is fun-loving and didn't look like someone who would get into trouble," said a worker at a shop owned by Tom's parents on Dudley Road, Sedgley.

Roy Fido, head of environmental health at Worcester City Council, confirmed the incident is being investigated.