Police have identified the suspect who allegedly threatened the 5yr old son of expatriate and demanded cash and other valuables from them yesterday.

POLICE CONFIRM the suspect is a wheelbarrow boy from Navua and currently is in Suva. He said police are expected to arrest him soon.

The man appeared from the bushes and grabbed the 5 year old boy, threatened to kill him with an axe while demanding items from the families HAVING A picnic in the interior of Namosi.

The family then gave the man $300 cash, two digital cameras and other valuables worth more than $2,200. The man then took the little boy and left him about 10 metres away from where the family was. He also left the axe with the boy.