POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a security guard was dubbed security scum and punched to the ground by a gang of youths.

The 22-year-old guard was walking along the footpath of St Michaels Church, Windhill, at just after 8pm last Wednesday when the attackers struck.

He felt a blow to his back and fell to the floor and was hit by two or three youths, but cannot remember their descriptions. The thugs then ran off towards Apton Road.

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