On the 20-06-17 just after 8.00 pm two teenage women, aged eighteen and nineteen years, were walking along St Georges Road in Preston when they were approached by three offenders, a male wearing a mask as well as two females. The offenders demanded money and when the victims indicated that they had no money the male offender slashed one of the female victims with a knife before all three offenders fled towards Bell Street. The victim was treated in hospital.

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