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Police seek man who "repeatedly punched" cyclist on Brighton seafront

Incident caught on film happened on morninh of Saturday 6 August

Police in Sussex have appealed for help to find a man who repeatedly punched a cyclist in Brighton, with the incident on the morning of Saturday 6 August caught on camera.

The victim, aged 23, had been riding at around 10am on Brighton’s promenade alongside Kings Road, a space shared between cyclists and pedestrians.

According to Sussex Police, the cyclist “braked to avoid a man and then rode past him.

“There was an exchange of words between the two men before the pedestrian grabbed the cyclist and punched him repeatedly.

“A bystander intervened and then someone else, who appeared to know the man, pulled him away telling him to stop.”

While Brighton’s promenade is busy enough at this time of year as it is, building works currently taking place mean that the shared space is particularly squeezed in some placed, although it is impossible to tell from the police release whether the incident happened at one of those pinch points.

Police added: “The man is described as white, late 30s to early 40s, with very short ginger hair, a distinctive bridge nose and an outline star tattoo on his left hand.

“He was wearing a navy blue polo shirt with a light blue 'moose' logo, white shorts and black shoes.

“He had a silver watch on his right wrist and a silver bracelet on his left wrist.”

Officers ha e appealed for witnesses or anyone else with information to email 101 [at] sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101 quoting serial 543 of 06/08, or to contact the charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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dodgy | 7 years ago
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In that picture of him above, you can almost hear him grunting like a caveman.

 

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ChrisB200SX replied to dodgy | 7 years ago
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dodgy wrote:

In that picture of him above, you can almost hear him grunting like a caveman.

 

Quite the specimen, isn't he.

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LarryDavidJr | 7 years ago
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The shared space where the works are narrows so much it should just be closed to cycles for the duration. It simply isn't wide enough for peds and cycles at the same time, especially with how busy it is in summer.

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Rapha Nadal replied to LarryDavidJr | 7 years ago
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LarryDavidJr wrote:

The shared space where the works are narrows so much it should just be closed to cycles for the duration. It simply isn't wide enough for peds and cycles at the same time, especially with how busy it is in summer.

I've never had an issue with space whilst riding along it and I use it a few times a week.  It's clearly signed as shared space and said signs do ask cyclists to slow down for those walking. 

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brooksby | 7 years ago
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The joys of shared space, eh? It just takes one bloke who thinks its not shared space, makes life difficult for what he thinks is a pavement cyclist, said cyclist rises to it, and then you get a news story.  Whoever Punchy McNose is, I bet he's telling his mates about how he taught a lesson to this bl**dy cyclist riding on the footpath.

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1961BikiE | 7 years ago
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A rather sweeping statement I know but I suspect if the police had a look at their photo records they'd find him pretty quick.

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handlebarcam | 7 years ago
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When did Gumbys stop wearing hankerchiefs tied over their heads with four knots? They were so much easier to spot when they did.

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Lungsofa74yearold | 7 years ago
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John Terry at a loose end after Chelsea?

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Butty | 7 years ago
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It's LA on his UK hols.

 

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userfriendly replied to Butty | 7 years ago
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Butty wrote:

It's LA on his UK hols.

He's let himself go so much.

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Jamminatrix | 7 years ago
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"Caught on video". Where's the video?

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kevinmorice replied to Jamminatrix | 7 years ago
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Jamminatrix wrote:

"Caught on video". Where's the video?

 

Handed to the police like it should always be rather than plastered all over social media. 

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Jamminatrix replied to kevinmorice | 7 years ago
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kevinmorice wrote:

Jamminatrix wrote:

"Caught on video". Where's the video?

 

Handed to the police like it should always be rather than plastered all over social media. 

Okay, good. I was worried they may need the public's help to identify and find this guy. Good to see they identified him.  29

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wycombewheeler replied to Jamminatrix | 7 years ago
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Jamminatrix wrote:
kevinmorice wrote:

Jamminatrix wrote:

"Caught on video". Where's the video?

 

Handed to the police like it should always be rather than plastered all over social media. 

Okay, good. I was worried they may need the public's help to identify and find this guy. Good to see they identified him.  29

If he can't be identified by the still above a video won't add much.

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bikebot | 7 years ago
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They should've asked Guy Ritchie, he's probably cast him in something.

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WillRod | 7 years ago
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Another reason for a good d-lock... Might have swung it as I got pushed officer  3

 

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thx1138 | 7 years ago
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He looks like a pleasant chap...

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