A cash-in-transit operator was robbed by two masked men while moving a cash box worth £35,000. The robbers threatened to stab him if he didn't hand over the box.
A cash-in-transit operator has spoken out after he was robbed by two masked men . Martin Smith, 28, and Jake McAllister, 27, had previously broken into the Aldi supermarket in Rochdale, stealing over £1,000 worth of booze. Stashing it nearby, they came across the operator as he was moving a cash box worth £35,000 from his van to the Nationwide Building Society in the town centre. They threatened to stab him if he didn’t hand over the box.
In fear, he threw the box to the ground before the pair ran away. Smith and McAllister were captured on the operator's bodycam. READ MORE: The 'cold, calculating' grandad undone by glowing eBay reviews In a statement, the operator said: “I’d never given a second thought to stepping out of a van prior to this, but now I now feel like I am constantly being watched." “This was a short spree operation targeting commercial operations, of high financial value,” judge Tina Landale told Smith and McAllister as she jailed them for over two years eac
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