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A Christchurch supermarket is warning elderly customers to be careful, after a nine-year-old boy has been threatening customers, demanding money and stealing groceries.
The New World Supermarket in St Martins has warned customers not to give money to the boy who has been begging in the carpark, because of reports he was causing havoc in the community, reported The Press.
One local, who did not want to be named, told the paper the boy was "intimidating and threatening".
"He has not just been in the supermarket carpark but also approaching people on the street mainly elderly, frail women, asking them for money."
The boy had been approaching supermarket customers since being excluded from school three months ago.
An 84-year-old woman said the boy had approached her four times in the past month.
He had asked her for money and followed her home as she walked to her house from church on a Sunday morning.
Police said they were working with Child, Youth and Family in regards to the situation.
- NZPA
