THIEVES armed with a machete, a sword and a sledgehammer raided a restaurant in Withington.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the robbery at Nando's on Wilmslow Road at about 11pm on Sunday.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the robbery at Nando's on Wilmslow Road at about 11pm on Sunday.
Three masked men got out of a grey VW Golf GTI and went into the restaurant, while a fourth offender stayed in the car.
The thieves demanded cash from the staff before leaving the restaurant making their getaway in car, driving along Wilmslow Road towards Didsbury.
The car was later recovered by police in the Withington area.
No one was hurt during the incident. The raiders all wore balaclavas.
Anyone with any information is asked to call police on 0161 85 66090 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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It might not be seen as progress - by some - but we need to embrace the 'cashless' society'... and I don't mean a skint one.
Banks would need to tighten up on lax practices - chip and pin is not the solution 'experts' said it would be, and it would be odd going out for a pint with no money - tho' some would appear to do this already - but surely, it would eradicate bank/cash-in-transit robberies; ATM attacks and (some) muggings and burglaries, if there was no instant cash reward for thieves?
Of course, we would need a method of accessing our own finances to pay for goods and services, but it can't be beyond the capabilities of the financial institutions to devise a method whereby the above could be achieved.
And I wouldn't go home after a night on the lash with pockets full of shrapnel and screwed up 'fivers'. (Oddly, I never have any 'tenners' left...)
Can I point out that Nandos is in Fallowfield, not Withington.
DaisyBlue
Withington Resident
laura: perhaps a more satisfactory (though more difficult) solution would be the re-introduction of harsh penalties for anti-social acts, i.e. hanging and public thrashings.
Bobelesque: my proposal was for a global, cash-free society. And despite many wishing it to be the contrary, Britain no longer has an empire; so we can't tell the rest of the world to hang and chastise their criminals as you would have us do here.
I am all for severe - and longer - jail sentences, I just don't believe inflicting violence, judicial or otherwise, achieves anything.
You missed out birching, in your earlier suggestion, btw.
(ace will not be happy with you.) (g)