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Homophobic attack on trainee Pc

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A gang of up to 20 youths attacked an off-duty trainee police officer outside a gay bar in Liverpool city centre.

James Parkes, 22, who is training with the Merseyside force, was out with friends when he was set upon by the gang on Stanley Street on Sunday night.

Six teenagers have been arrested by police, who are treating it as a homophobic hate crime.

Mr Parkes is in hospital with multiple skull fractures and fractures of his eye-socket and cheek bone. Nick Ravenscroft reports.

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