Pushed into the Ouse

A TEENAGER was robbed on Clifton Bridge over the Ouse in York by a gang of young thugs then pushed off  into the river.

The police have told that they could have had a death on their consciences, but luckily the teenagers was a swimmer, Alan Tilbury reports.

'Lucky'

The gang had stopped him as he was riding his bike across the bridge, and was 'lucky' that he did not hit his head on the parapet or fall on a boat passing underneath.

PC Pauline Law, from the York Safer Neighbourhood Team, stated:

"This was a dreadful incident which could easily have ended in tragedy. It is simply down to good fortune that the victim was able to swim to the shore.

"If he had hit his head or got into difficulties in the water, then the offenders would have a death on their consciences as well as the robbery itself."