POLICE are to take no further action after receiving information that a theft of a mobile phone in Basildon didn't happen.
Officers had appealed for information after it was alleged a mobile phone was snatched out of a 22-year-old man's bag by a group of teenagers in Cherrydown East, on September 19.
However an Essex Police spokesman said the allegation will not be taken any further after new information indicated the theft did not occur.
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