Armed robberies linked by police

Detectives said they believe two bus drivers and a taxi driver may have been robbed by the same man in Oxfordshire.

The taxi driver, who was attacked in Headington on Thursday night, had a chain put around his neck, before being robbed and hit on the head with a gun.

In the early hours of that day a man pulled a gun on the driver of an Oxford Tube coach. The driver was also hit on the head with the weapon.

On Wednesday evening another bus driver was threatened and robbed in Wheatley.

Drivers warned

Det Ch Insp Colin Paine said: "I have a team of detectives, including officers from the robbery team, CID and the high-tech crime unit working hard to catch whoever is responsible.

"We have forensically examined both the buses and the taxi and are following up several lines of inquiry."

The investigating team said the man who carried out the robbery on the number 280 Arriva bus in Wheatley, is thought to be white and was wearing a white scarf with thin black stripes and a black beanie-style woollen hat with thin white stripes.

The man who robbed the Oxford Tube coach was Asian and in his mid-20s. He was wearing a black jacket, a black beanie-style hat and a hooded top which covered his face.

Although the descriptions differ, detectives said they believed all three robberies could be linked.