Gardaí ‘amazed’ passing motorists failed to raise alarm as JCB rammed ATM

GARDAÍ say they are “absolutely amazed” a number of motorists who witnessed a mechanical digger demolishing a cash machine have not contacted an investigation team.

Superintendent Charlie Barry, who is leading the investigation, said detectives looking at CCTV footage of the raid in Cork county last weekend could clearly see a number of car headlights passing by at the time of the incident.

He said motorists, who passed the garage where the attempted robbery took place, could not have missed seeing the JCB ramming the building. Yet none of the early-morning motorists contacted Gardaí.