Police are hunting two armed robbers who trapped a lorry driver in a car boot.

The driver, who has not been named, was taking televisions and equipment worth £45,000 from Station Approach, Coulsdon, along the Brighton Road on July 23 at approximately 7.30am when he was threatened by a white man armed with a black hand gun.

He was forced to drive the white Mercedes lorry into a lay-by next to Woodcote Park golf course where he was approached by a second man also armed with a handgun.

The driver was then forced into the boot of an old style green Vauxhall Vectra. He was driven away for 20 minutes before being returned to the lorry.

The lorry was then driven on by the robbers before being left in a lay-by in Mitchley Hill, near the junction with Rectory Park.

The first man is described as white, aged about 25, with a very gaunt face and sunken eyes. He was around 6ft 3in and was wearing a white Reebok hat and a grey hooded top with a Reebok logo on the breast pocket over a dark blue Adidas track-suit.

His accomplice is a black man aged about 25. He was around 5ft 10in wearing a black fleece jacket over a dark blue track suit bottoms.

PC Sam Gandy of Croydon police's robbery team has asked anyone with information to call the police on 020 8649 1217 or Crimestoppers in confidence on 0800 555 111.