Two elderly women were left shaken after a robber tried to steal a handbag and threatened to stab one of them.
The man, described as white, 5ft 2ins tall, slim and wearing a woolly hat and dark glasses, approached the women in the Greenwood House area, in Argent Street, Grays.
Police say the man grabbed one woman's handbag and as the second woman tried to intervene she was told by the robber he was going to stab her but ran away empty-handed.
Published Wednesday, June 11, 2003
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