Police hunt Leeds axeman

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Police are on the hunt for a man who is wanted over a series of incidents in Leeds over the weekend.

Officers want to speak to David Riley, aged 36, from Harehills, in connection with a road traffic collision on North Street in the city centre at about 5.30pm on Saturday 10 February. A cyclist was knocked off his bike and injured by a van that left the scene.

The van was then involved in a collision with a number of other vehicles at the junction of Sheepscar Street North and Scott Hall Road and abandoned. A Ford Transit van was stolen from the scene after the occupants were threatened with an axe.

That vehicle was then involved in a further incident outside the Arndale Centre, in Otley Road, Headingley, where a bicycle was stolen.

The suspect was least seen fleeing into nearby woodland on St Chad’s Rise.

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