POLICE are investigating after four youths repeatedly punched an MP in the head in a vicious attack in his seaside constituency.
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood tried to stop the gang throwing a ball around in Boscombe high street, Dorset, when they turned on him.
They threw the ball at point blank range at his face twice when he asked the trouble-makers to move on.
The gang then got angry when he took photographs of them on his mobile phone as evidence and called police. The youths tried to steal his mobile phone. Witnesses then saw the gang of four take a number of violent swings at his head.
Mr Ellwood went to hospital with minor head injuries and a swollen ear.
The MP is a former Army officer, who served for five years with The Royal Green Jackets including stints in Northern Ireland.
