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The man pictured “may hold information to assist enquiries”\"Police<\/p>\n

Police think this man might have information to assist the investigation(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\n

Police have launched a CCTV appeal after a man armed with a hammer smashed the window of a First Bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It happened on an X4 service, which connects Bristol and Portishead<\/a>, at around 6.10pm on Wednesday, March 4.<\/p>\n

The bus was in the North Somerset<\/a> village of Pill at the time of the attack, on Haywood Road.<\/p>\n

Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> have now issued an image of a man officers would like to speak to in connection with the damage.<\/p>\n

A force spokesperson said: “We have carried out patrols in the area, have conducted CCTV enquiries, have spoken to witnesses, but we would now like to speak to the man in the image who we believe may hold information which could assist our enquiries.<\/p>\n

“The man in the picture is described as mixed heritage, of slim build, with short black curly hair, and black facial hair, who is wearing a grey jumper, a black gilet and black trousers.”<\/p>\n

He is pictured at a roadside with a grey hood over his head and appears to be holding on to the top of a road sign.<\/p>\n

Police did not state if the bus was operational at the time of the incident, nor if any passengers were on board.<\/p>\n

Anyone who witnessed the damage or knows the man’s identity has been asked to contact police via 101 or through the force’s online form, quoting reference 5226061064.<\/p>\n

Anonymous calls can also be made to the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police think this man might have information to assist the investigation(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man pictured “may hold information to assist enquiries” Police think this man might have information to assist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,188,393,45266,4884,956,11945,16,15],"class_list":["post-848615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-firstgroup","tag-great-britain","tag-north-somerset","tag-portishead","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116288072339788685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}