Police make fresh appeal over Wellington assault

To accompany the new appeal, they have today released a CCTV image of two vehicles - a taxi and a yellow Seat - and two individuals - passengers from the taxi - they wish to trace.

The incident occurred outside The Beacon public house in the Market Square in Wellington early on Sunday 20 May.

At around 12.55am the victim - a 22-year-old man - was waiting for a friend outside the pub when a large fight broke out on the road in front of him.

Two men then approached the victim and verbally abused him, but then, without any warning, one of the two men struck the victim on the back of the head with what was believed to be a beer bottle.

The two men immediately fled the scene on foot after this assault.

A police spokesman said:

"This is a nasty, unprovoked attack and as a result of it the victim suffered a one inch cut to the back of his head which required a hospital visit to have it glued.

"Although the victim can only describe the men that attacked him as being white, police are particularly keen to trace the occupants of a white Peugeot taxi and a yellow Seat car that were parked near the pub at the time this assault occurred.

"The two vehicles and two individuals are shown on the CCTV image we have released today and although we do not believe they are directly involved with the assault, we do feel the occupants of the two vehicles may have witnessed the incident.

"Therefore we are very keen to speak to them about what they may have seen.

"Anyone with information about this incident, especially anyone connected to the CCTV image released today, is asked to contact police in Telford quoting reference number 30S 200512.

"Police can be contacted by call 101 or 0300 333 3000, or alternatively please remember that Crimestoppers can also be called anonymously on 0800 555 111 if you'd rather leave information without getting directly involved yourself."