ABOUT 15 young men set upon a 39-year-old man in Wood Farm, Oxford, and kicked and punched him.

The man was left cut and bruised after the attack at 9.30pm on Monday in Blackstock Close, but police only released the information yesterday. The victim was treated at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital and has since been discharged.

Three teenage boys from Oxford, aged 16, 17, 18, were arrested on suspicion of assault causing actual bodily harm.

They have been released on bail until Sunday, September 21.

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