Appeal after unknown woman repeatedly offered lift to child in Tewkesbury

Police are appealing for information after a woman who was driving a car in Tewkesbury pulled up alongside a child and repeatedly offered her a lift home.

The incident happened at around 3.25pm on Monday 19 May on Station Street between Spring Gardens car park and The Maltings retirement complex.

A woman who was driving a silver vehicle pulled up alongside the 13-year-old child, opened the window and said she knew the girl’s mum and asked her more than once if she wanted a lift home.

The woman was described as being white, aged in her 60s, with grey hair in a bob style and she was wearing glasses. She was alone in the car at the time and then drove away.

Police Constable Shay Badra, from Tewkesbury Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “Since this incident was reported to us we’ve been making enquiries in the area, such as reviewing CCTV and doing house to house.

“At this time we don’t know why the woman was asking the child questions, whether she thought the child was someone else or whether there was a more sinister reason for her driving her vehicle alongside the child.

“Therefore we’re keen to identify who she is and find out what her intentions were.”

Officers are asking for the woman, or anyone who saw the woman or the silver vehicle approach the child, to come forward and contact police.

Information can be provided to police online by completing the following form and quoting incident 337 of 19 May: https://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/tua/tell-us-about/cor/tell-us-about-existing-case-report/