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23
Jul 2021
Last Updated: 23/07/2021
Appeal after woman in wheelchair hits three-year-old girl
Police are appealing for witnesses after a mother reported that a woman in a wheelchair hit her toddler near a Harrogate school yesterday morning.
Grove Road Community Primary School in Harrogate.
A woman in a wheelchair hit a toddler near a Harrogate school yesterday and police are appealing for witnesses.
North Yorkshire Police (NYP) said a mother reported that a woman in an electric wheelchair stopped her while she was pushing her three-year-old daughter in a buggy on Skipton Road, at about 10.30am on Wednesday.
The suspect allegedly grabbed the girl, pinched her ear - which caused fluid to appear - then hit her on the head three times. The toddler did not require medical treatment.
Officers have appealed for anyone who was near Grove Road Community Primary School between 10.20am and 10.30am who may have witnessed the incident, or caught anything on dash-cam footage, to come forward.
The woman was described as being white, in her 40s, with short brown hair and a “chubby” build. She was wearing dark glasses and a short-sleeved pink T-shirt, NYP said.
Potential witnesses can email ryan.rudd@northyorkshire.police.uk or call 101.
Information can be given anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, quoting the reference number 12210164772.
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