Gang of boys in robbery attempt near station

News Police are appealing for witnesses after a group of teenage boys attempted to rob a woman on the cycle path near Filton Abbey Wood station.

It happened at about 6.15pm on Monday, November 28. The woman was cycling towards Abbey Wood near the bridge over the railway when the boys approached her.

Two of them grabbed her bike and they tried to take her bag.

The woman shouted and screamed and was able to ride away.

She was shaken but unhurt and nothing was stolen.

The woman told us there were up to six boys all aged between 12 and 16.

We’d like to identify a group of boys seen in the area at around the time, described as:

• White, with brown hair, wearing a black coat with fur round the hood and with a black rucksack and black shoes.

• Black, wearing a black coat and

• White, wearing a dark coat, a grey hood and grey tracksuit bottoms.

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