POLICE are trying to trace three taxi passengers who may have overhead an appeal for help over the vehicle's radio intercom as they made their way home in the early hours of Saturday, April 24.

The trio were picked up in Waterloo Street, St Helens, at about 2.30am and were taken back to Vulcan Village, Newton-le-Willows.

Anyone with information is asked to contact DC Andy Ince at St Helens CID on 0151 777 6064.

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