Concern over ‘cycle officer’
By
BARRY CLARKE
A man posing as a cycle safety officer is bothering schoolchildren in the St Martins area. He has struck several times this week, stopping primary and intermediate-age girls and asking to inspect their bicycle seats. The police are warning parents to tell their children not to stop for anyone claiming to be a cyle safety officer and are anxious to catch the man. The man tried to stop a Form 2 girl at the St Martins shopping centre. He then followed her into St Martins School and tried to lift her dress before the girl screamed and cycled off. “Fortunately she was a sensible girl,” the school principal, Mr Peter McGurk, said yesterday. “She had the brains to get away quickly. The person had yelled out something to the effect ‘Stop, I’m a cycle officer, at the shopping centre. “She kept going. He followed her and moved towards the bike stands. He accosted her but when he tried to lift her dress she took off.” Mr McGurk said the man would have entered the school unnoticed because of the large number of parents moving in and out of the school grounds. The man is described as European, in his 30s and speaks with an English accent. He has brown spiky hear and blue eyes. He was wearing a brown jacket, worn at the sleeves, blue jeans and sneakers.
He was possible driving a burnt orange early model Ford Falcon.
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