Mobile phone attack

POLICE were yesterday hunting a man who attacked a retired church verger who had asked him to turn off his mobile phone in a church.

John Tasker, 62, suffered a broken nose in the attack in Waltham Abbey Church, Essex. The man punched Mr Tasker in the face after his phone rang in the church and he was asked to switch it off. Mr Tasker's wife Audrey, who is now the church verger, is believed to have witnessed the attack on Thursday afternoon.