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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
James McNeill

Boy, 7, approached by strangers who 'grabbed his hand to take him for skittles'

A mum feared for her seven-year-old son's safety after he was nearly "kidnapped".

Rachael Deakin from Bebington said her son Zander was playing out with his friend on Abbots Drive when she heard him scream. Zander had been approached by two boys who asked him if he wanted skittles.

Rachael claims that Zander and his friend took the boy's hand who then guided them down an alleyway. As they walked away from home the other boy asked them if they wanted to go for ice cream and would need to travel to the "middle of nowhere to get it".

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