A TEENAGE leukaemia sufferer was robbed of fishing tackle valued at £1,500 by two brutal thugs.

The youths approached the victim and a friend, both aged 16, as they were fishing on the canal near to St Helens Linkway between 1 and 2pm on Thursday, June 17.

They told the victim to gather his equipment together and ordered his friend to stay where he was.

The pair then dragged the victim over the Linkway towards Warrington New Road, across a factory car park and onto an old railway line near Jackson Street where they told him to leave the tackle and go back to his friend.

The robbers are described as aged between 16 and 18 with local accents. One was about 5ft 9/10ins tall, stocky and spotty with light ginger hair and a thin moustache. He was wearing a baseball cap, yellow shirt and cream-coloured trousers and trainers. The other was slightly taller and thin with drawn features and wore a white jacket and white trainers.

The tackle was in a 'Bennetts of Sheffield' carrier. Anyone with information can contact DC Paul Hesketh at St Helens CID on 0151 777 6063 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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