The Savoy Hotel has apologised after footage emerged of a security guard attacking a homeless man and jumping on his head.
The video - which was recorded on 30 December last year but only surfaced on Friday - shows the guard, dressed in a smart black suit, talking to a man by the entrance of the five-star venue in central London before launching a "vicious" assault.
He repeatedly strikes the victim - who had reportedly been seen fishing coins from a decorative fountain - and throws him to the ground as other staff and a doorman in a top hat and tails watch on.
