POLICE have released an image of a man they want to identify after another man was hit in the face with a mobile phone.

A man was seen urinating in the garden of the victim’s home in Cavendish Place in Eastbourne.

The victim, a 44-year-old man, went outside to record the incident on his mobile phone when the man took the device and hit him in the face with it.

The injury sustained required medical treatment at hospital.

Police are investigating the assault which happened at about 9.30pm on Saturday, October 30, and have released images of a man they want to speak to.

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The man pictured has several tattoos on his neck and face.

Anyone who recognises him or who has any other information is asked to report online or call 101, quoting serial number 1317 of 30/10.