A CAR park guard was assaulted as he did a routine foot patrol at a popular Hampshire supermarket.

The 33-year-old security officer was stabbed in the arm with an unknown object when he challenged a man who was suspiciously looking into parked cars at Morrisons car park in the middle of the day.

The man then lunged at the guard with the sharp object piercing his right arm.

The victim was taken to hospital and had to have jabs and blood tests after the incident at 1.40pm on Wednesday.

The attacker is described as white aged between 20 and 30 about 5ft 7in, skinny with gaunt facial features, piercing blue eyes, two or three days of facial stubble and ginger hair.

He was wearing black/grey dirty jeans, white trainers, dark blue thin jacket, white baseball cap with oil stains on the peak and front with a red flash on the rear. His rear left jeans pocket was ripped.

The assault took place at the supermarket at Anchorage Park, in Portsmouth.