POLICE are trying to find a man with a 'brown patchy beard' who threatened a teenager with an electric screwdriver.
It happened between 1.05am and 1.30am on Wednesday when the 16-year-old boy was walking along Newlands Avenue in Didcot.
Nothing was taken from him and he was not injured.
However, only minutes before, at around 1.07am, a man in his sixties spotted the same man on his CCTV trying to break into a garage on Abbott Road with a similar electric screwdriver.
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However the robber failed to break in and so nothing was stolen.
The man, who is around 21-years-old and at the time was wearing a Nike puffa-style jacket with three colours in horizontal blocks.
He was also wearing black bottoms and black Nike vapour max trainers.
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Investigating officer PC Lorraine O’Connor, based at Wantage police station, said: “I am appealing to anyone who has any information about these incidents to come forward.
“We believe that the two incidents are linked."
With information call police on 101 quoting the reference 43200180444.
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