Police are urgently looking for man after 3 teen girls were sexually assaulted in Blackburn

Police are urgently searching for a man in connection with the sexual assault of three teenage girls in Blackburn.

The incident occurred in Blackburn Mall on Friday (March 20) at about 3.20pm, when a man walked past and assaulted them by grabbing them inappropriately.

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Police are urgently searching for a man in connection with the sexual assault of three teenage girls in Blackburn. The suspect shown on the CCTV is white, approximately 60 years old, dark hair, small in height but large in build, wearing a black t-shirt, carrying a black carrier bag in one hand and a white carrier bag in the other hand and wearing purple tinted sunglasses. | Blackburn and Darwen Police

He made off after the shopping centre security were contacted.

The suspect shown on the CCTV is white, approximately 60 years old, dark hair, small in height but large in build, wearing a black t-shirt, carrying a black carrier bag in one hand and a white carrier bag in the other hand and wearing purple tinted sunglasses.

If you know this man or have any information which could help Blackburn and Darwen Police find him, please call 101 quoting log 1060 of March 20th.