Police are seeking a group of teenage boys who allegedly spat at a family in Thorpe Park earlier this month.

The incident happened on Sunday (June 6) between 6-7pm ahead of closing time at the theme park.

As a family which included a young cancer patient were leaving the park, a group of teenage boys "waiting in line on the staircase for a water slide started spitting at them," police described.

"The parents were concerned that their eight-year-old daughter had been deliberately targeted because she has a shaved head due to cancer treatment," the statement continued.

Consequently police are now appealing for information as they seek to speak with those involved, and offered descriptions in their information appeal:

"The four suspects are described as 17 year-old boys, all around 5’8” tall.

"The boy who spat on the informant’s daughter was described as Mediterranean, with curly black brown hair and wearing a black t-shirt.

"The other boys were described as White. One had short blonde hair and wore a black t-shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms. One was wearing shorts and a t-shirt with a side pouch."

Thorpe Park told the Surrey Comet they were assissting the police with the investigation. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact Surrey Police on their website or by calling 101, quoting PR/45210059001, or calling Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.