A British man, whose wife made a passing comment about a Muslim woman’s full face veil, suffered a broken nose and lost his front teeth after being attacked and head butted by the woman’s partner, police said on Sunday. The victim, a 46-year-old white man, was walking through London’s Regent’s Park with his family when they passed a Muslim family. A police spokesman said that the victim’s wife told her husband that it might be difficult for the Muslim woman to see, since the veil covered her face. “The suspect began shouting and returned approximately 10 minutes later on his own and repeatedly punched and head butted the victim.” The man was taken to hospital, suffering from facial injuries including a broken nose and a black eye, but was discharged later in the day. According to the police spokesman, the suspect was about 35-years-old and of Middle Eastern appearance. The police were treating the incident as a racially motivated assault. The attack occurred in mid-November but police were only alerted to the incident last week.