Possible scam/threat in St George’s

Me and my partner walked out of boots after getting some items and ran into these two Muslim people one a man the other a woman with a baby in a pram. The dude was in a black tracksuit and the lady had a white and beige hijab on the pram was purple. The man showed us this hand written sign the writing was in pink and he asked us if we could help his baby sister. He was very nice, complimenting me and my partner on our jewellery and clothes. He showed us really awful pictures of a baby with its organs outside its body and said that was his baby sister (however after looking at the picture and the baby in the pram I realised they were the same person so something wasn’t adding up we only realised this later tho)and she needed formula and they didn’t have money. At first we said we would help because we felt bad but when we said yes he grab my partners had and pressed it to his forehead then kissed it then basically bowed to them and pressed his hand to their shoe. They asked us to follow them to go buy the formula we thought it would just be a shop down the street until they told us they had to buy the prescription from their chemist in Bolton we said we couldn’t go to Bolton and they asked us if we could just give them the money to go buy it themselves. We didn’t know how much formula cost we are only 17 and 18 with no children so we told them that and they told us to search it. My partner went on safari and instead of searching formula prices they typed out “I don’t think formula is what they want” we made the excuse that my mum doesn’t know we are in town and that she’s caught us and that we need to go the people thought my partner had msged me and didn’t really believe us but we ran anyways and hid in Ann Summers until we knew they were gone.

UPDATE -

We went back to boots hoping to find a security guard to talk to and we found police instead. We told them about the situation but it turns out those two were well known scammers with loads of reports on them. The police gave my partner hand sanitizer cuz of the unwanted kiss and we were told that a lot of police were out today just to search for the scammers. We don’t know if they’ve been caught or not but at least the situation is semi resolved :)