Parents on ALERT after terrified boy, 10, flees from man in van
A TERRIFIED 10-year-old boy fled after a man in a van approached him at a park in broad daylight in Suffolk.
The boy was approached near this park
The youngster was walking near the play park in Faulkeners Way, Trimley St Mary, in the county, when the man pulled up alongside him in a black van and started talking.
The boy fled and raised the alarm sparking a police hunt.
Parents are on alert after Suffolk Police released a description of the man.
He is believed to be white with blonde hair in a quiff style at the front.
He was driving a black Transit-style panel van with tinted windows with white lettering on the side.
The man approached the boy near a playground
The police spokesman said: “There may be an innocent explanation for the incident but police need to trace the man involved.”
The driver is understood to be in his mid twenties to thirties and may have had tan lines on his face where he had been wearing glasses, but he was not wearing them at the time of the incident.
Suffolk Constabulary is investigating the incident
The boy was approached at 4.40pm on Wednesday, June 29.
Officers are asking the man himself, anyone who may recognise his description or anyone who may have been in the area around this time, to call officers at Felixstowe Safer Neighbourhood Team by dialling Suffolk Police on 101, quoting crime number 41819/16.