Police appeal after Attempted Street Robbery in Ryde
Police are appealing for witnesses to an attempted robbery in Ryde High Street on Wednesday, November 2. A 28-year-old woman was leaning into the boot of her car outside Iceland just after 2pm, when a man approached her. While talking to her, he grabbed the strap of her handbag but failed to steal it. PC Leah Fearn from Newport CID said: “This incident happened on a busy high street in the middle of the afternoon, when there would have been lots of people around.
