Axe youths rob boy, 13, at canal

Sep 2 2008 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A TEENAGE boy was threatened with an axe in a canalside mugging.

The 13-year-old was riding his bicycle along the canal towpath off Leeds Road, Bradley Mills, yesterday lunchtime when he was stopped by two youths.

One asked for a cigarette but the second then threatened the boy with an axe, forcing him to hand over cash and two mobile phones.

Both youths were white and skinny, aged about 14 or 15. One had a white T-shirt and the other a black hooded top.