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A man handed himself in to police on Saturday night after a video showing an elderly man being knocked to the floor outside Aintree racecourse went viral.

The video, which shows a drunk man barging into an elderly passer-by and knocking him over near Aintree, sparked a backlash after being posted on social media.

The incident is believed to have happened on Thursday.

The elderly victim’s condition is not yet known but police said he suffered a “facial injury”.

A statement said: “Merseyside Police can confirm that a man has tonight voluntarily attended a local police station and will be spoken to by officers about an alleged assault in the Aintree area in which another man was pushed to the floor and suffered a facial injury.”

The incident in pictures:

The 60-second footage shows a bearded man in a suit staggering around on the pavement before knocking over an elderly man who is standing nearby.

The gentleman staggers and falls on to the road, hitting his head heavily as he does so, to gasps of horror from onlookers.

Passers-by and Aintree stewards come to the elderly victim’s aid, with shouts of “call an ambulance.”

The man filming the incident on his camera phone - who appears to know the offender and calls him “tex bomb”- can be heard sniggering throughout.

The video was posted widely on social media, along with people expressing their outrage.

On Facebook Gary Mangan said: “I was the lad putting him in the recovery position!! He was bleeding and his teeth where on the floor! Unaware at the time he had pushed him but I could hear the lad filming laughing so I shouted after them and that fat pri*ck tried to land one on me which I seen coming from 6 miles away! That’s when I found out he pushed him they told me it was no accident!!!”

He later added: “I chased after them lads and then the ambulance turned up! So I just told some security staff that if he is in a bad way the 2 lads done it”

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