Police Identify Suspect

Police have identified the suspect who allegedly threatened the 5yr old son of expatriate and demanded cash and other valuables from them yesterday.

POLICE CONFIRM the suspect is a wheelbarrow boy from Navua and currently is in Suva. He said police are expected to arrest him soon.

The man appeared from the bushes and grabbed the 5 year old boy, threatened to kill him with an axe while demanding items from the families HAVING A picnic in the interior of Namosi.

The family then gave the man $300 cash, two digital cameras and other valuables worth more than $2,200. The man then took the little boy and left him about 10 metres away from where the family was. He also left the axe with the boy.