Club ejection man stops breathing

Five men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of assault after a man was ejected from a university music venue in Lincoln, police said.

The man, 23, stopped breathing outside the Engine Shed at the University of Lincoln on Saturday morning.

The university said members of staff from the Engine Shed and the university were "assisting police" with inquiries.

The man was taken to Lincoln County Hospital's intensive care unit where he is said to be in a serious condition.

A spokeswoman for the university said: "Members of staff from the university and the Engine Shed are assisting police with their inquiries into an incident which occurred at the Engine Shed at 1.20am on Saturday, October 4, 2008.

"As police inquiries are still ongoing and details of the incident are unclear, no comment can be released at this time but the university takes any on-campus incident very seriously and will continue to cooperate fully with police inquiries."

The man, described as 6ft 1in, white and of slim build, was wearing jeans and a blue-grey zip-up jumper, police said.

Det Supt Roger Bannister said: "We know there were a large number of people in the Engine Shed at that time, and people's help in letting us know what happened to the man is really important."