POLICE have issued an e-fit of a teenager they believe threw a milk crate at a passerby in a Bishop Auckland street.

The victim needed five staples in a head wound after the incident, in Westgate Road, at 9.40pm on Friday, December 21 last year.

The teenager is about 15 or 16, 5ft 9in or 5ft 10in tall and medium build with brown "curtain-style" hair, clean shaven and a low-set brow.

Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Andrew Crowe at Bishop Auckland police station, on (01388) 603566.