Sausage roll prevents Mortimer handbag snatch
Published: 06:20, 07 March 2013
| Updated: 12:17, 21 January 2015
The victim, a 19-year-old woman, was followed by a man after she had left Adam and Eve hairdressers on West End Road at 6:05pm on February 27.
The man attempted to snatch the handbag off the victims shoulder but was deterred after the sausage roll was thrown in his face.
Thames Valley Police have said the offender is a 6ft white male in his 30s and was wearing a black hooded top with the hood raised.
Police are appealing for witnesses of the offence or those who saw the offender in the area, to contact Paul Culley on the police non-emergency 101 line.
Witnesses can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.