Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Policing Inspector Darren Taylor said the incident happened in the Cromwell Road area at 11.30am on Wednesday (July 21). He said police received ‘reports of a male struggling to push a stolen industrial reel of cable down the road which then started to unravel on them’. “We have recovered the cable and also have a name for the suspect,” he said. Anyone with information can call 101 or get in touch online at www.sussex.police.uk, quoting CAD 0442.