Park attack caught on CCTV

New CCTV cameras recently installed in St Nicholas Park after a campaign by residents have already caught a serious assault on film.

But it has not been able to produce a clear image of the attacker, who hit a teenager in the face with a bottle.

Three cameras, which are monitored 24 hours a day, were installed in the Warwick park last month following a long campaign by Neighbourhood Watch groups, elderly people living on the outskirts and a Friends of the Park support organisation.

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Full details of the attack, which actually took place at 7.40pm on May 25, have only just emerged because The Courier approached the 
police, who had not made an appeal for information.

The victim was a 16-year-old boy who was standing with his friends near the tearoom.

One of the friends took a close-up mobile phone picture of the assailant, believed to be aged around 40, who was wearing a dark blazer over a blue and white horizontally striped top and purple Converse-style trainers.

But police have not released this image, or the CCTV images, because they said they are not clear enough. However, police said the footage has been of some use and they have spoken to witnesses.

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The teenager was treated for a deep laceration above his right eye.

The suspect, who was white, estimated to be about 5ft 10 or 11ins tall and slim and with brown hair cut in a short back and sides style, was seen leaving the park in the direction of Smith Street where he is believed to have left the area in a car.

District councillor Linda Bromley (Con, Warwick South), who helped with the campaign for 24-hour monitored cameras costing nearly £8,000 each in the park, said: “If these cameras lead to the arrest of this offender or help prevent other incidents of this kind then they will have already paid for themselves.”

Anyone with any information is asked to contact DC Tonelli in the Leamington investigation team on 684085 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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