A dog walker was kicked in the head after asking a gang of teenage thugs "not to damage a tree". A second man is reported to have been brutally attacked with a "sharp object" when the pair confronted the group in Romiley, Stockport, on Monday evening.
Greater Manchester Police has now apologised after officers failed to turn up after receiving reports of the vicious attack. Helen Pidd, The Guardian's North of England editor, witnessed the shocking incident and went to help the victims, one of whom was "on the floor being kicked by a gang of lads".
She later took to Twitter to criticise GMP for failing to send out officers in response to the attack. In a series of tweets on Wednesday morning, she said: "Just how violent does an attack need to be before @gmpolice send out an officer to investigate?
