The junction of Utting Avenue and Lorenzo Drive in Norris Green (Image: Liverpool Echo)

A 13-year-old boy was traumatised after a masked gang "armed with knives" threatened him and his friends before stealing two electric bikes. The boy's mum, who has not been named, said she received a frantic phone call from her son on Monday evening (November 24) in which he screamed someone was trying to stab him.

The teen had met two friends outside Aldi on Lorenzo Drive in Norris Green at around 7.40pm. The boy's mum claimed three youths approached her son and his friends, who had two e-bikes between them, showed them knives and demanded their bikes.

The 33-year-old told the ECHO : "Three lads approached them, showed them blades and then tried to take their bikes. My son threw his bike a

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