SPRINTING away from the police, he must have thought he'd given justice the slip again.
The last thing the runaway would have expected was being ambushed by a posse of middle-aged women.
Yet armed with nothing more than their handbags, their Christmas shopping and not a little courage, the trio managed to tackle the fugitive and help bring him under arrest.
Police in Worcester yesterday asked the women, whose heroics T8 LED Tube T8-1500mm were captured on CCTV, to come forward so they could thank them. They had been after the suspect for 13 weeks in connection with possessing an offensive weapon and assaulting police when he was spotted wearing a baseball cap in the centre of the city last week.
Around 20 officers chased him through the streets for several minutes before the women rolex replica shoppers swung into action as he crossed a bridge, blocking his way and forcing him to run across a main road. There, the man was grabbed by a van driver before, seconds later, police took him into custody-A Worcester police spokesman said: 'The women did not know each other and were walking some distance apart when each realised, in the space of a few seconds, that a man was being pursued.
'They had very little time to react. Almost acting in unison, they
embroidered patches responded in exactly the same way by trying to apprehend the man, not knowing whether he was armed.
Although we have concerns for the consequences of their actions, we applaud their courage.' * Do you know the identity of the women who helped catch the fugitive? Call the Daily Mail on 020 7938 6063.
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