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Neil Shaw

Police hunting 'Peter Beardsley lookalike' in old Liverpool shirt

Police are hunting a suspected thief wearing an old Liverpool FC shirt and people have taken to social media to point out he looks a bit like-Reds star Peter Beardsley.

Lincolnshire Police released a snap of the man, who definitely isn't the former England striker, captured on CCTV in Morrisons.

Two bank cards from a lost wallet were used to make contactless payments at the store in Stamford on September 30.

After police issued the image, social media users poked fun at the suspect, saying he looks like the Beardsley.

Others said the man looked like Blakey from On The Buses.

Writing on Facebook, Arthur Rogers joked: “Peter Beardsley must have fallen on hard times.

“Maybe he’d picked up Ian Rush’s wallet and thought he owed him a few quid from back in the day!”

A police spokesman said: "We are investigating an incident of theft by finding along with a subsequent incident of fraud.

"We believe a wallet was found on September 30 at Morrisons on Uffington Road in Stamford.

"The cards were then used to make two contactless purchases.

"We could like to speak to the man pictured in connection with the incident."

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