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19/04/2005
Police revisit scene of cash delivery robbery
Police investigating the robbery of a £1.2 million cash delivery at Creighton's Garage on the Upper Lisburn Road last Tuesday have today revisited the scene.
Detectives stopped motorists in the Diamond Gardens area between 7.30am and 8.30am in an effort to gather information which might help their inquiries.
Shortly after midnight last Tuesday morning, four masked men armed with guns, entered a flat in the Belvoir estate and held a couple hostage until the early hours of the morning.
Then sometime between 4.30am and 5.30am the female was taken from the flat and bundled into what is believed to have been a four door blue car. She was taken to a derelict house at 12 Annadale Avenue and held in the enclosed rear yard until approximately 9am when she was released uninjured.
At the same time, her partner was ordered to go to work at Brinks Security Company in the Duncrue Industrial Estate and to carry out his normal duties. He was told to bring a Brinks van loaded with cash to Creighton's Garage on the Upper Lisburn Road.
There they were met by two males in a two-door blue Renault Megane, which was parked beside the garage at Diamond Gardens and a large sum of money was handed over.
Detectives say the Upper Lisburn Road would have been busy with traffic on the morning of the delivery drop and called on anyone who may have noticed the Brinks van or a blue Renault Megane either parked at Diamond Gardens or travelling along Richmond Park to contact them.
The blue Renault Megane was later found burnt out at Old Glencairn Road in North Belfast at around 7pm.
Detectives can be contacted on 028 9065 0222 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
(MB/GB)
Detectives stopped motorists in the Diamond Gardens area between 7.30am and 8.30am in an effort to gather information which might help their inquiries.
Shortly after midnight last Tuesday morning, four masked men armed with guns, entered a flat in the Belvoir estate and held a couple hostage until the early hours of the morning.
Then sometime between 4.30am and 5.30am the female was taken from the flat and bundled into what is believed to have been a four door blue car. She was taken to a derelict house at 12 Annadale Avenue and held in the enclosed rear yard until approximately 9am when she was released uninjured.
At the same time, her partner was ordered to go to work at Brinks Security Company in the Duncrue Industrial Estate and to carry out his normal duties. He was told to bring a Brinks van loaded with cash to Creighton's Garage on the Upper Lisburn Road.
There they were met by two males in a two-door blue Renault Megane, which was parked beside the garage at Diamond Gardens and a large sum of money was handed over.
Detectives say the Upper Lisburn Road would have been busy with traffic on the morning of the delivery drop and called on anyone who may have noticed the Brinks van or a blue Renault Megane either parked at Diamond Gardens or travelling along Richmond Park to contact them.
The blue Renault Megane was later found burnt out at Old Glencairn Road in North Belfast at around 7pm.
Detectives can be contacted on 028 9065 0222 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
(MB/GB)
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