A WOMAN has been assaulted in a children’s play park.

The attack happened shortly after 4.15pm on Wednesday in the park at the end of Goodwood Way, Moulsecoomb, Brighton.

The 36-year-old local woman had gone to the park with a child and saw a man had let his two dogs off their leads.

The woman confronted him, saying dogs were not allowed in the park.

The man then grabbed the woman’s neck, causing her to fall to the ground, before fleeing the scene.

He was white and stocky and his dogs were Staffordshire bull terriers.