The family of a Scot who died in Spain after being found unconscious in the street are urging holidaymakers to help piece together what happened.

Chris Lindsay, a new father from Edinburgh, was on holiday with colleagues in the Costa del Sol region when he went missing. Doctors believe Mr Lindsay was then assaulted.

The 34-year-old had been drinking with other members of staff from the Marketing Company in Glasgow on Saturday October 1 and became separated from them.

The next anyone heard was when his partner, Vikki Solomon, received a call from a Spanish hospital on Tuesday October 4 to say he was in a critical condition.

Mr Lindsay’s father and brother flew out to be at his bedside but he died of liver failure on Friday.

With many questions left unanswered, Ms Solomon is appealing for holidaymakers to help piece together what happened to Mr Lindsay. She hopes someone may have spotted him in the resort of Calahonda between the Saturday night and Tuesday.

Ms Solomon told STV News: "On Tuesday morning I got a phone call saying he was in hospital in Spain and that he was critical and we had to get out there as he was on his own. I was shocked, I didn’t believe it.

"We don’t know how he got to hospital, all we knows is that he went out with work colleagues on Saturday night and then on Tuesday morning we got the phone call.

"We are in the dark as to who took him to hospital, how he got there, what his injuries were when he was first admitted, what happened to make his condition deteriorate. We don’t know where he was from Saturday night until he went to the hospital which we think was Monday.

"We need to know if anybody saw him, who he was with, if he was on his own. We just need to try and piece this together to get some answers because nobody knows apart from Chris."

Ms Solomon said her partner was trying his best to build a future for her and their three-month-old son Jude.

She said: "Chris was working hard to try and build a future for us and his son and it’s all been taken away from us. We have been left with nothing and we have got no answers and that’s just the hardest part.

"I still can’t quite get my head around it, it’s just so difficult. We all talked ourselves in to believing it was all going to be okay, that he was going to pull through and we still can’t believe it."

A post-mortem examination has been carried out in Spain and the family are still waiting to hear the results. Doctors told them Mr Lindsay had been attacked but the official cause of death is liver failure.

His father Harry Lindsay said: "The doctor said he reckons he had been attacked but he couldn’t then turn around and say that was the cause of death. They have to wait until they’ve done some more exploring to find exactly what the cause of death was."

His body will be flown home next week but a Spanish judge has ordered that it be buried and not cremated.