POLICE are hunting a group of youths who assaulted a man and stole his ring in Rochdale.

The 50-year-old was walking down the road on Howard's Place when he was attacked at about 9:30pm on Thursday 11 October.

The man received two broken ribs and had his tooth knocked out by the group of one man and two girls.

Luckily the man ran away and was able to escape before more violence was inflicted.

The first offender is described as a woman, around 19-years-old, with a local accent. She was 5ft9ins of medium build, had a large hooked nose, wearing a dark hooded coat, black t-shirt, blue ripped jeans and white trainers.

The second offender was a man around 18-years-old, with tanned skin, medium build and around 5ft8ins. He had short, brown hair with tramlines on one side, cleanly shaven and was wearing black wooly gloves with blue pants and black boots.

The third offender was a woman between 18 and 20 years-of-age, of medium build and had black, gelled hair. She had spots on her cheeks and chin and was wearing a dark coloured hoody.

Police are keen to talk to two girls who were in the area at the time and witnessed the assault. They were around 17 years old, wearing multi-coloured cardigans and had long hair.

Anyone with information is urged to call police on 0161 856 8632 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on either 0800 555 111 or via their website.