WATCH the CCTV Footage of the heist here: bit.ly/HDRobbery Smooth exit for gang after heist Thieves who violently smashed up a jewellery store in the Blue Route Mall, sending customers and staff running in fear, had parked their getaway vehicles in the undercover parking, and took the time to use the parking ticket system before leaving. Ebrahim Harris, co-owner of Harris and D’arcy Jewellers, an upmarket store which on Sunday was raided by nine men armed with rifles and sledgehammers, said he could barely believe what he was watching when he scanned the CCTV footage captured by cameras throughout the mall. “I watched them put in the little ticket and everything.” The owners had been braced for a heist after security had spotted “suspicious characters” watching stores just before the weekend, said Harris. “My security recognised some of them from pictures shared on Facebook.” The pictures were those of people identified in connection with another mall robbery he said, “and we advised the police”. He was taking no chances. His brother, Bubi, who owns Harris Jewellers in Canal Walk, had been hit by robbers in October last year. Thieves, who also entered the store in daylight, escaped with diamonds, rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches worth R2 million after smashing glass displays inside the store. Harris Jewellers at the V&A Waterfront was robbed of stock worth an estimated R15m. However, the pair of robbers in that case were later arrested. Story: Kieran Legg / Photograph: David Ritchie / CCTV Footage Supplied (Read the full story in todays Cape Argus or get the app at myindependent.co.za) ~Lady Butterfly~
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:06:24 +0000
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