A man discharged himself from hospital yesterday after being attacked at Worthing's Teville Gate centre.

He was found by a passer-by on Saturday night lying with facial injuries in the boarded-up precinct but he left Worthing Hospital before police could question him.

The precinct, built in the early Seventies and condemned by many as an eyesore, has been the scene of a number of assaults recently, including a stabbing.