Completely unacceptable - yobs launch unprovoked racist attack on teenager POLICE are appealing for information after a teenager was attacked in a racially aggravated assault in Bolton. At around 4.30pm on Friday, January, 8, police received a report that a 19-year-old man had been riding his bicycle on St Helens Road, close to the junction of Plodder Lane, when he was approached by three teenagers. The three proceeded to verbally abused him with comments of a racist nature, before assaulting him. Emergency services attended and the man was taken to hospital with head and facial injuries. He has since been discharged.