Stolen van chase – police officer injured

IMAGES of a critically ill man found collapsed in a street in London have been released.

Police want to identify the man, who is fighting for his life in a central London hospital.

He was found on Holloway Road in north London at around 8.40pm on Saturday February 24.

Officers were flagged down by a member of public and found the man, who had stopped breathing.

Police carried out CPR and established a pulse, before paramedics from A POLICE officer was injured and two police cars were damaged in an early morning chase of a stolen van in West Drayton.

Despite the chase, in which two cars belonging to members of the public were also damaged, the suspects managed to abandon the van and get away.

Police in Hillingdon had been called at 3.29am on Friday February 23 about a van being stolen from an address in Ryeland Close, West Drayton.

Officers had managed to locate the van and gave chase, damaging two London Ambulance Service arrived and continued to help.

Scotland Yard wants to hear from anyone who can identify the man so his family can be notified of his whereabouts and critical condition.

He is described as a black man, aged around 50, 6ft 4ins, of muscular build with a bald head.

He has a scar beneath his right eyebrow and a tattoo on his right shoulder of two playing cards – one which displays a cross and the other which shows a heart.

Anyone with any information should contact the central north operations room by dialling 101 and quoting reference 18FOU001925. police cars and two cars belonging to members of the public in their pursuit.

West Drayton residents also reported hearing a police helicopter overhead and marked and unmarked police cars in the Houghton Road area.

The van was found abandoned by police in Providence Road and the suspects had managed to get away.

A police officer sustained a leg injury in the pursuit and had to be taken to hospital but was later discharged.

Police made no arrests and are continuing to make enquiries.