Police are investigating reports of a 25-year-old Barrow man being verbally abused and threatened by another male at the bus stops opposite Wilkinson’s in Barrow Town Centre at around 4:30pm on Monday 24th January.

The suspect is described as wearing a black puffer jacket with the hood up and carrying a white JD bag, and is believed to have boarded a bus towards the hospital.

Anyone with information relating to this incident can report online at www.cumbria.police.uk/report-it , quoting incident number 178 of 24th January 2022. Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.