We hope our readers will take a long, hard look at the pictures we publish on Pages 1 and 2 today.

They show two thugs laying into an innocent 25-year-old and his friend in West Oxfordshire's first 'happy slapping' attack.

The men were walking home after a night out when, for no reason, they were set upon by the duo, who walked off laughing afterwards.

While one man ran off to get help, the other was knocked to the ground, kicked and punched while the assault was filmed on a mobile phone.

He is still suffering the effects three months after the incident.

Now he has come forward to speak about his ordeal, while police have released CCTV images in an attempt to catch the louts.

A police officer hunting them says it is the most brutal attack he has seen in his career.

We hope any reader who recognises the men will come forward.

Thugs like this have no place on our streets.