Student threatened with knife before being punched and kicked for...

Police investigating two knifepoint robberies in Colchester which happened in August are appealing for witnesses. Both happened on August 26. The first happened between 3.50pm and 4.50pm in Walsingham Road, where a group of four to five men approached a male student, aged 20, from behind, two produced knives and took his mobile phone before he was punched and kicked. The second happened in Osborne Street between 4pm and 6pm when again a group of men demanded the 16-year-old male victim's...