Gardaí turn to pub-goers for clues to robbery

GARDAÍ are anxious to talk to more than 150 customers who may have seen a robber leaving a pub after he had tied up a member of staff and stole the night’s €8,500 takings.

Gardaí are still not sure if the robber followed the assistant manager upstairs or was lying in wait for him as he went to secure the takings.

A spokesman for management at the East Village Bar and Restaurant in Douglas, Cork, said yesterday that the member of staff was not hurt but was very shocked by the ordeal.