My partner and I were violently attacked on May 2. I was punched and kicked in the face and my partner was punched and kicked also.

The attacker was one of a group of four, two young males and two young females, all white. They were walking from the bottom of St James's Street in Brighton shouting homophobic abuse along the way.

My partner and I were walking along the same route on our way home. The group stopped at the junction of Upper Bedford Street and Upper St James's Street when the ringleader of the group started walking back towards me, still shouting homophobic abuse, trying to encourage me to fight with him.

He then attacked me, punching and kicking. I fell to the ground and he kicked me in the face. This disorientated me for several seconds.

He attacked my partner, then they ran off towards Essex Place in Montague Street. Two of them ran behind the Tower Block and two went into it and into the lift. My partner chased them but they escaped.

The police were called. There were three witnesses. One gave the police his details, one (he was sitting on a bench) disappeared and the other lives in a flat where the attack took place. She ignored requests to call the police and only complained about the noise. Other complaints about the group in St James's Street were made to the police that night.

The police arrived and took details. Next morning, an officer telephoned to say someone would call to arrange for us to come into the station to make our statements. We never received that call.

I contacted the police and the Anti Victimisation Unit (AVU) to make sure the CCTV footage was saved from the cameras in St James's Street and the lobby of Essex Place.

I called the police station to make an appointment to make my statement and went in the next day. My partner was not included.

The statement was written by the constable who arrived at the scene after the attack. He seemed genuinely sympathetic. The sergeant on duty that day showed me some digital images of people who met the description of the attacker.

I have called several times either the police or the AVU to ask how things are progressing and find out when they wanted my partner's statement.

It has been five weeks and four days since the attack. My partner still hasn't been asked to make a statement and it was he who got the best look at the attackers. It was some time ago now and the attack was very quick and erratic. It would be difficult to keep the incident fresh in the mind.

My partner was as injured as I was but my injuries were more obvious and perhaps more alarming. Maybe because of this I got more attention from the police.

We are very angry at the way this incident has (or rather hasn't) been handled. We moved to Brighton from London two and a half years ago and have experienced several incidents of verbal homophobic abuse and heard of countless homophobic attacks.

There is obviously a problem with homophobic aggression on the streets of Brighton and very little seems to be done about it. If our attacker had had a knife, I have no doubt he would have used it.

Is it going to take a murder before any report is taken seriously?

-Richard Moore, Kemp Town