Police have warned of two suspicious incidents in Colchester involving a man with a van and a ladder.

In the first, a woman found a suspicious person on a ladder looking into her bedroom window at about 2pm on Wednesday in Magnolia Drive, Colchester. On being spotted, he got down from the ladder and fled with it in a white van.

In the second incident, a man driving a white van with a ladder on its roof spoke to a teenage girl on her way home and made inappropriate suggestions. It happened on the same day just before 6pm in Magdalen Green, Colchester.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Colchester police on 01206 762212 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111

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Published Friday, January 28, 2005

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