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02/11/2011
Cash Kidnap Gang Fail In Robbery Bid
A member of staff at a Co Antrim cash handling facility has been left unhurt but badly traumatised after he and his wife were kidnapped by a gang from their home on Monday.
The PSNI said that armed and masked men entered their house on the Drumaghlis Road in Crossgar between 7.30 and 8.30pm and held the couple overnight before the man was ordered to go to his workplace, in Mallusk, and to remove a sum of cash.
The robbers drove the man was driven in his own car to the Mayfield area of Glengormley where they arrived at approximately 4.20am and after he went to the G4S facility, he was told to meet a man at Boucher Place in west Belfast.
The robber was in a silver Honda Civic car, but before the money, was handed over, the car was driven off and by 9am, the man's wife also freed herself from a house under renovation at Myrtlefield Park in south Belfast, to which she had earlier been taken.
(BMcC)
The PSNI said that armed and masked men entered their house on the Drumaghlis Road in Crossgar between 7.30 and 8.30pm and held the couple overnight before the man was ordered to go to his workplace, in Mallusk, and to remove a sum of cash.
The robbers drove the man was driven in his own car to the Mayfield area of Glengormley where they arrived at approximately 4.20am and after he went to the G4S facility, he was told to meet a man at Boucher Place in west Belfast.
The robber was in a silver Honda Civic car, but before the money, was handed over, the car was driven off and by 9am, the man's wife also freed herself from a house under renovation at Myrtlefield Park in south Belfast, to which she had earlier been taken.
(BMcC)
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