 Detectives from Beverly Heads are investigating the serious assault of a security guard at the McDonald's restaurant at Palm Beach in the early hours of Sunday the 11th of November. It appears that sometime just before 3am the group of the young people who have entered the restaurant, due to their behaviour they've been asked to move on. There was a verbal confrontation with the security guard. Here's the security guard who's left the premises. Three young people who followed him outside and for no apparent reason have attacked him. They've dragged him to the ground and assaulted him, both by punching and kicking him. At one point one of the offenders has taken torch from the security guard and he's been assaulted with the torch time later. During the scuffle another male security guard in a veneer, he too was assaulted. A short time later the three offenders camped. We are seeking assistance from the public, any person who may have been in there at the time, if they could call the police. We're also releasing some images taken from the McDonald's restaurant of three people we would like to speak to in relation to this matter. We'd ask if anyone knows the identity of these people, the contact police or contact constables. That would be like a pretty brutal assault. We've gone over and described it as not only brutal but from our investigation so far we can see no rhyme or reason for the attack and this gentleman was just going about his business, his rightful business and he was just set upon for no apparent reason. How did Murray do the first guard suffer? The first guard suffered some cuts and abrasions. He did suffer a fairly severe discussion. Look, it's hard to say they certainly are young but we'd appeal for anyone who knows the identity of these people to contact us, contact our constables, which they can do so. They've been described as in their late teams possibly. We've made inquiries from the staff and we've taken statements from the staff and we're following up on number of lines. The inquiry is unable to say. We don't even know if they're local or not. Was the torch recovered? Not at this stage now. Do you have strong leads then with these photos as well? We are hoping by releasing the photos that there's someone out there who's able to give us some sort of persistence as to the identity of these people. As I said, you can do that anonymously, just by contacting the constables. Do you think he'll ever work there again? It certainly was a shocking attack and certainly would have some impact on him. Has it shocked the staff? I can't have some impact on him. But unusual? Unusual. It's an unusual event, that's for sure, yeah. There's a security guard that patrols there every weekend. Is it a known hotspot for violence? No, I wouldn't say that, no. There are premises that are open for hours and more security. For no other reason, just as a form of a risk aversion.