A French student was slashed across the face with a craft knife today.

He was in Wish Park, Hove, when a group of youths dressed in what are described as black Gothic-type clothes, attacked him.

The 19-year-old victim walked to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, where he was treated for a cut face and a slashed back.

Police were alerted at about 3am and officers searched the park but did not find the offenders.