Detectives are investigating after an immigrant was left with a broken cheekbone and shattered nose in an alleged racist attack at a district pub.

Iranian Ismaily Rehman Pur was allegedly attacked by around ten people while out for a quiet drink with his English girlfriend at the Roebuck Hotel in Greengates, Bradford.

The 26-year-old was kept in Bradford Royal Infirmary overnight and had to have a CT scan to check for a bleed on his brain after losing his memory.

His girlfriend, Kathryn Shields, 34, who lives in Eccleshill, said it took her four days to persuade him to report the attack because he feared being deported.

Mr Rehman Pur, who had overstayed his student visa to the UK from Belgium where he had first sought asylum status, was detained by police on Thursday night at the request of Immigration officials That was despite the fact that he was awaiting at Bradford Royal Infirmary to re-structure his nose.

Police enquiries are still ongoing into the alleged attack, which happened on Friday, January 6.

Detective Inspector Richard Partis said: “We are presently treating the incident as racially-motivated, and clearly with all incidents of this nature we are taking the matter extremely seriously.”

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