A third man has attended The Rocks police station with a lawyer as the investigation into an unprovoked attack that left a Sydney man with critical injuries continues.
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Earlier today, two men were questioned by police and released without charge.
The men were questioned following the attack on Mr Cramp, 26, on George Street in the city in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police have been told Mr Cramp, from Cremorne Point, was assaulted by a group of about three men, who were accompanied by three females, about 3am on Sunday.
He was standing under the awning of a McDonald’s restaurant when he allegedly was set upon by the group who, minutes earlier, had been involved in a separate brawl with another group of men a short distance away.
The two men arrived at the police station about 8.30am with their lawyers. A police spokeswoman said they had not been arrested, and were assisting with the investigation.
The men were released this morning, and have not been charged over the attack.
The solicitor for one of the men, John Korn, said his client contacted him last night saying he wanted to go to police.
"[He] came here completely of his own accord," Mr Korn said. "I spoke with police last night and we made a mutually convenient time to come here this morning."
Mr Cramp’s mother, Angela, of Primbee, told Macquarie Radio late yesterday that her son had opened his eyes after two days in an induced coma.
"He started sort of coming awake, and we were talking to him, he sort of fluttered his eyes and said ’Hey mum, what’s happened?’," she told the radio network.
A St Vincent’s Hospital spokesman said Mr Cramp was in a serious but stable condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit this morning.
Mrs Cramp says her son, who grew up in Goulburn before moving to Sydney for work, is a very active person who enjoys running, skateboarding and snowboarding and he still has a lot of healing to do.
"It's been horrific," she said.
"Our son is living a nice life, having fun, doing what normal people do. To end up on life support at St Vincent's because he was out with his friends in George Street in Sydney is just dreadful. That's wrong, we shouldn't have that in our community. Our community has to do something about this."
Mitch Gardiner watched the first fight and then looked on as the men walked up the street and attacked his friend out of nowhere, saying they were just in the "wrong place at the wrong time".
"I thought he was dead instantly," Mr Gardiner said. "Just sheer terror, his head bounced off the ground and I was just looking at his chest to see if he was still breathing because I feared the worst."
Mr Gardiner rushed to his friend's aid but said he had to push the attackers away who continued to act "aggressive" even after Mr Cramp hit the ground.
"I just want my friend to get better," Mr Gardiner said. "I want them brought to justice but at the end of the day all I'm thinking about is my friend up there who is struggling."
"Detectives believe the three men and three women shown in the CCTV footage may be able to help with their inquiries," police said.
Earlier on Monday, acting Rocks police superintendent Tony Bell compared the incident with the fatal attack on Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross last year.
Mr Kelly, 18, died last July two days after being king hit as he walked along the street during a night out with his girlfriend.
Supt Bell said shortly after 3.20am on Sunday there was a brawl involving two groups of people outside an all-night fast food restaurant on the corner of George and Bridge streets.
One man was injured in that altercation.
Soon afterwards a group of men launched what appears to be an unprovoked attack on Mr Cramp about 30 metres down the road.
"He's just there with his group of friends, doing nothing wrong at all," Supt Bell told Fairfax Radio.
"This could have been another Thomas Kelly incident - an innocent bystander doing nothing wrong, out having a great night ... with his friends and copping a punch to the head for no reason," he said.
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