POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 15-year-old escaped five attackers.

The Langley Park Secondary School pupil was followed by five black youths along Upper Elmers End Road after leaving a train at Eden Park station.

Two of the youths approached him and demanded his money and mobile phone, threatening him with knives.

They then took him across the road to a bus stop, surrounded him and punched him in the face. He managed to run away.

The two aggressors are about 16 years old and 5ft 7ins. One wore a blue hooded jumper, the other a white jacket and blue hooded fleece. If you have information about the incident at 4.45pm on November 24, call police on 020 8284 8048 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

November 26, 2001 17:35