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Woman assaulted & bike stolen in Newmarket

Bike taken by two of 5-6 hooded men

Suffolk police are appealing for witness after a 25-year-old woman was assaulted and her bike stolen in Newmarket last night, according to the East Anglian Daily Times.

At about 10.30 pm, the woman stepped off her bike near a block of flats after hearing a group of five-to-six men talking nearby, a Suffolk Police spokesman told the paper.

“She turned to look at the males when one of them kicked her on the hip which caused her to fall over on to her bike and she hit her head on a step to one of the flats,” the spokesman said.

“The man began to pull her bike away and then called to one of the other men to help him. The man rode off on the bike with the other man running off behind him.”

The bike is described as a 2012 Boardman Comp Pro women’s mountain bike. It is mainly white with a pink Boardman sticker on the frame, white seat, pink pedals, the front forks are white with a Rockshox sticker on each.

The first man is described as Asian, in his mid 30s with black hair and black stubble, he wore a dark hooded top with writing on the front and mid denim jeans.

The second man is also described as Asian in his late 20s, he had black hair on his top lip, he wore a lighter coloured hooded top and mid denim jeans.

Both men had their hoods up.

Of the other three or four men, two were white, the remainder Asian. All wore hooded tops and spoke in a foreign language.

Police are appealing for witnesses who should either call 101 to help or email headquarters [at] suffolk.pnn.police.uk

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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notfastenough | 10 years ago
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Unbelieveable, hope the victim recovers and these b*stards are caught.

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kie7077 | 10 years ago
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scummy little sh!ts

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