Boy robbed after cash machine visit

Detectives are investigating the incident

A 12-year-old boy has been robbed after withdrawing money from a cash dispenser.

Police said the boy was walking across the playing fields near an Asda supermarket in Toryglen, Glasgow, soon after withdrawing the cash when he was grabbed by two women and a man.

They took a two-figure sum of money and some personal items, including the bank card, from him before fleeing.

Strathclyde Police said the boy was unhurt but shaken by the attack.

It was unclear whose account the boy had withdrawn the money from.

The three robbers are aged around 19 to 20 and said to be scruffy looking.

The man was wearing a dark jacket and light jogging trousers with a stripe on the side.

He walked with a limp and had an injury to one of his eyes leaving it almost closed.

The first female thief is described as having long dark hair and she was wearing a white baseball cap, a white jacket with a dark panel on the shoulders and down the sleeves. She also walked with a limp.

The second woman also had long dark hair and was wearing a blue head scarf, a brown jacket, which appeared to be too big for her, and white jogging bottoms tucked into white socks and white trainers.

Detective Michael McCarron said: "It is possible that the three people responsible for this robbery had been hanging about the cashpoint for some time watching people withdrawing their money."

He urged anyone who might have witnessed the robbery or people answering the the attackers' descriptions to contact police.