Girl saved from attack
Friday 23rd January 2009, 2:41PM GMT.
A Good Samaritan saved a 15-year-old girl from a robber when he fought off her masked attacker.The teenager was grabbed from behind by a man who tried to snatch her handbag as she walked at the back of Delbury Court in Hollinswood.
She fell to the floor as the man, whose face was covered by a scarf, demanded her handbag.
But another man appeared and punched the attacker in the face.
The attacker fled in the direction of the multi-storey car park after the attempted robbery between 2.30pm and 2.45pm yesterday.
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