Detectives hunting a gang who stole £90,000 of medical equipment in a lorry raid have issued pictures of the stolen cargo.
Officers hope the new pictures will jog the memory of someone in the south Essex area who has come into contact with the goods.
The precious laboratory equipment was taken during an early morning raid in Grays, in which a trucker was slashed with a craft knife.
The driver, in his early forties, parked up for the night in Motherwell Way, on the Frogmore Trading Estate.
He awoke shortly before 5am to see four white men stealing two boxes of goods from the rear of his vehicle.
He leapt from the cab to confront the gang but one of the thieves pulled out a craft knife and proceeded to slice the driver with the blade a number of times.
The robbers then jumped into a red Ford Transit van and sped away from the scene.
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