Police release image after New Year's Day attack

Police investigating a reported assault in Royston, Barnsley, have released an e-fit of the man they are trying to trace.

At around 1.30am on Sunday January 1, a 50-year-old man was walking down Chantry Grove, Royston, when he was reportedly assaulted by a man who had been walking on the same street with a larger group of men.

The 50-year-old suffered a head injury in the attack.

The man has been described as a white, in his late twenties, around 5ft 6ins tall, of a stocky build, with dark curly hair, a goatee style beard and to have been wearing a burgundy coloured t-shirt.

If you have any information about in the incident please contact police on 101 quoting crime reference number B/3051/2017.

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