Dress Shops George Street Edinburgh
A SHOP abettor told how she was befuddled adjoin a bottle chiffonier as an armed assemblage raided a jewellers.
["620.8"]Margaret McLennan, 67, was larboard with a atramentous eye afterwards three masked men access into the upmarket Hamilton & Inches abundance area she worked.
The robbers wielded an axe, machete and sledgehammer as they ransacked the boutique in George Street, Edinburgh .
Margaret gave affirmation bygone on the aboriginal day of the balloon of two men accused of actuality in a assemblage who staged the heist.
She said: “One of the men got authority of the top of my accoutrements and threw me away. I assume I was blocking their way. I hit my eye on the bend of a chiffonier and concluded up on the ground.”
She said the assemblage burst cabinets again biconcave watches and jewellery into bags.
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WhiteStuff White Stuff Edinburgh | Dress Shops George Street EdinburghMargaret added: “I had my duke accoutrement my eyes from the bottle that was flying. These men were shouting, ‘Get down,’ and, ‘Stay down’.”
Chartered architect Alastair Walker saw the break disciplinarian cat-and-mouse in a white BMW alfresco the shop.
In court, the 67-year-old articular accused Michael Hood, 32, as the man with “very dark, algid eyes” he had apparent abaft the wheel.
Earlier, the High Cloister in Livingston heard from Hamilton & Inches arch controlling Stephen Paterson, who was alive back the robbers struck. The 53-year-old said an axe-wielding blackmailer affected him to accessible a affectation again snatched jewels including a £325,000 necklace.
Stephen said: “I saw three men in balaclavas in what seemed to be aphotic boiler suits. My aboriginal anticipation was it was adorned dress again I realised it was a raid.”
["620.8"]He said the 90-second operation concluded back a bandit shouted: “Time, time.”
The balloon heard watches and jewellery with a broad amount of £579,479.69 were taken aftermost June 6 – but the items would advertise in the boutique for far more.
The three men who entered the boutique haven’t been articular by police. Witnesses said at atomic two of them had Lancashire or Manchester accents.
Evidence was agreed that three bootless attempts were fabricated to set afire a car affiliated to the robbery, which was begin in East Pilton Farm Rigg, Edinburgh.
Hood, 32, aforetime of Granton, Edinburgh, and now a captive at the city’s Saughton jail, is accused of active the break car.
["620.8"]Kurtis Beech, 29, of Salford, Manchester, is accused of active the white BMW and a dejected Honda, both baseborn and address falseregistration plates, from Manchester to Edinburgh afore the robbery.
Hood and Beech abjure the charges.
The balloon continues.
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