Appeal following robbery – Milton Keynes

Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following a robbery in Milton Keynes.

At just before midnight on Friday night (20/12) and into the early hours of Saturday morning (21/12) a man was stood at the taxi rank outside Milton Keynes train station, when he was approached by a number of males.

They grabbed the victim and tried to take his designer coat and beanie, the victim resisted and one of the offenders pointed to his waist band as though he was carrying a knife.

The victim handed over his coat, the beanie, as well as his Apple Airpods.

The victim was not injured and the offenders made off towards Costa Coffee.

The offenders are described by the victim as being between 16 and 18-years-old, around 5ft 6ins to 5ft 9ins in height and were of a mixed heritage.

• One male was wearing all black and a black camo print snood covering his face.  
• The second male was wearing a grey coat believed to be Canada Goose.
• The third male had a full-face, small afro style hair, square glasses and was wearing all black clothing.  

Detective Constable Grace Boland, said: “We are appealing for witnesses following this robbery.

“We are asking anyone who witnessed this incident to come forward. Additionally we believe there were taxi drivers in the vicinity of the taxi rank who may have dash-cam footage of this incident.

“As such we would ask them to please check their footage and get in touch if they think it could assist our enquiries.

“Anyone with information should call 101 quoting reference 43240617040 or you can contact via our online form.

“Or if you do not wish to speak to the police you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 and they will take your report 100% anonymously.”

GFL

Notes to editors: Please note they were of a mixed heritage.