Police seek robbers who stole £250 from teen - then demanded cigarettes and mobile top-up

Oct 22 2010 by Sophie Cross, Birmingham Mail

ROBBERS forced a frightened teenager off a bus, making him withdraw cash which they took, before taking him on a terror taxi ride.

The thugs ordered the youngster to hand over £250 before making him buy them cigarettes and top up their mobile phone, police said.

Police have issued CCTV images of the two male suspects, who they believe targeted the 16-year-old boy on the upper deck of the number 49 bus from Shirley to Kings Norton.

After threatening the boy the pair marched him to Lloyds TSB bank in Pershore Road South, Kings Norton, making him withdraw the cash before demanding cigarettes and a mobile phone top-up card from a nearby BP petrol station.

Following the incident, between 7.40pm and 8.10pm, they forced the terrified youngster into a taxi with them, getting out near McDonalds in Bordesley Green Road, Alum Rock at around 9pm on October 7.