A 19-year-old suffered injuries to his face in a racist and homophobic attack in North Yorkshire.

The man got off the 1C bus in Knaresborough and was walking in Swarcliffe Road just after midnight on Thursday, January 28, when two men attacked him.

North Yorkshire Police said one man grabbed the victim, who is Asian, and held his arms behind his back then pushed him forward as the other punched and kicked him in the head and both made racial and homophobic remarks during the attack.

The victim received numerous small cuts to his face and head, and police are treating the attack as a race-hate and homophobic attack.

One of the suspects was white and in his mid to late forties, with very short, shaved hair, a chunky or fat build and had neatly-shaven sideburns. He was described as having excess skin on his neck, like a 'turkey neck', and was dressed in workwear, a navy blue outdoor coat, dirty blue jeans and tan or sand-coloured Timberland-style workers’ boots, which had dirt on them. He spoke with a local accent and wore a plain gold band on his wedding ring finger.

The second suspect was a chunky or fat white man, also in his mid to late 40s with short, thinning hair and stubble. He wore a black leather bomber jacket, jeans, brown workers’ boots and had a blue tattoo on one of his wrists.

Anyone who witnessed this incident or has information which could help police should phone 101, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111, quoting reference NYP-28012016-0193.