At approx, 17.50 Friday 17th October 2014, a young Italian female became the 2nd victim of the day to be defrauded at the ATM in Station Road. Whilst drawing money and placing her cash into her purse, apparently 4 or 5 persons standing behind her loudly urged her to place her card back into the ATM machine, saying that if not the machine would stop working and they would not be able to use the ATM after her. She reluctantly done so but immediately became suspicious that something was wrong as her card would not come out again, and two African men ran away into Nuttall Road. Shouting loudly to stop the men a gentleman responded, ran after them and nearly managed to stop one of the assailants jumping into a silver VW Golf sedan, which was parked in front of the Shoe Shop, and then sped away. The young lady sustained a heavy blow to the right eye but soon afterwards had her bank card blocked. It is suspected that the other persons behind her had taken the card from the machine and left in the opposite direction. The gentleman who pursued the men suffered a few scratches to his arm and back. The Tops Bottle store attendants/security also saw the happenings, assisted the chase and subsequently assisted the distressed young lady. A resident noted part of the registration plate as - - X258GP and was able to have a good look at one of the assailants, her contact details are known to me. Incidentally, the OBSID Security Mobile trailer was parked across the road from the ATM for a few days, but as noted by the 'Tops' manager, it was moved to somewhere else today, and this was the second ATM incident of the day. It is hoped that the 'Tops' cameras may have recorded the incident. Anyone else with information is asked to make it known to the OBSID Security at [email protected]. James
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