Man who SLAPS people if they sneeze in public being hunted by police

Detectives are hunting a middle-aged man who is slapping High Street shoppers in his town if they SNEEZE.

In what Cumbria Police admit is ‘very unusual behaviour’, the man first smacked a woman round the head after she sneezed in Carlisle on Monday.

Then on Tuesday, officers believe the same man launched a second attack on a frail pensioner who also had a bout of the sniffles.

In that shocking incident an 82 year-old woman who had just sneezed was slapped over the head in broad daylight at 11.30am in Scotch Street, Carlisle.

Police described their strange suspect as being in his mid-to-late 50s and wearing a plush, tweed jacket.

The force have now asked for anyone with any information about, or who witnessed, the two related incidents to contact them.