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Police have confirmed the reported daylight robbery of a disabled man is no longer being investigated.
The CIU was initially investigating a man’s claims that he was attacked by a group of youths when he was returning from a Sebastopol supermarket.
He told police he was frightened, knocked to the ground and robbed of $300 cash.
Investigating police told The Courier the man’s versions of events were being investigated.
By 5pm it was confirmed the matter was no longer of interest to police and the man had lost his wallet.
EARLIER
‘Gutless’ youths knocked a man out of his wheelchair, robbed cash from his wallet and left him lying on the ground in broad daylight on Sunday.
Police said the man in his 40s, who is disabled, was returning from the Albert Street Woolworths in Sebastopol with his grocery shopping when he was approached by a group of three male youths on Hertford Street.
The teens asked him for a cigarette and the victim said he did not have a cigarette.
The man, who was frightened, tried to get away quickly when the teens pulled him out his wheelchair, tipped him onto the footpath and stole his wallet at 5pm on Sunday.
The youths ran in a northerly direction toward Cromwell Street.
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