TWO thugs threatened to break a man's legs in a Southend street.

The 32-year-old victim was in St Augustine’s Avenue, when they approached him.

It happened at 1pm on Sunday, November 20,leaving the victim distressed.

The first suspect is a white man aged in his late 30s or early 40s, about 6ft tall, medium build with dark brown cropped hair.

He has sunken eyes and yellow crooked teeth, tattoos on both arms, and was wearing a dark coloured polo neck style T shirt, blue jeans and sand coloured boots. The second is a white man aged in his late 40s, of large build, with a bald head, but greying brown beard and moustache, wearing a number of sovereign rings. The pair were seen using a car.

The investigating officer, PC Warren Lamb, said: “I am hoping that the collective descriptions of these males will ring some bells with anyone who knows them and I am keen for any information which could help me to identify them. If you know who they are, or witnessed the incident then please let me know.”

PC Lamb can be contacted by calling Essex Police on 101.