Police are appealing for any information after a woman tried to pull a two-year-old boy from his mum’s arm in Gedling.
The incident happened at around 5.55pm on Wednesday (19) in Arnold Lane towards the junction with Friday Lane.
A mum had one child in a pushchair and another in her arm when an unknown woman approached her muttering under her breath.
She then tugged at the two-year-old in his mum’s arm and has been challenged.
The suspect has then run away in the direction of the mini roundabout and Main Street.
She has been described as a white female, aged 50 to 60, small, skinny build, wearing a blue face mask, a pink puffer coat with the hood up and dark blue jeans
Police were called and officers have made a number of lines of inquiry to track the suspect down including a CCTV trawl, forensics and door-to-door inquiries.




