Robber posed as taxi driver to take post worker to work
The raider collected Deirdre Higgins outside her home in Beaumont, north Dublin, yesterday and brought her to her post office in the Omni Park Shopping Centre in Santry.
Detectives believe that the raiders had carried out surveillance on the movements of Ms Higgins.
It appears that the taxi company received a call the night before from a person canceling her taxi. The raiders then sent a bogus taxi to pick up her.
“She always takes a taxi to work. She was picked up by what looked like a taxi, but it was bogus, and brought to work,” said a Garda source.
Locals in Beaumont Crescent said that a second taxi arrived as she was driven off. This is understood to have been a taxi driver from the firm she used who may have got suspicious as to why she cancelled.
When Ms Higgins arrived at the Omni Centre the driver instructed her to go to the post office and withdraw cash and brandished a gun at the woman.
Security at the post office were alerted. Sources said the raider may have got “spooked” and left the scene empty handed.
