€18k award for sisters in fake raid

Two sisters, who fell victims to a mock armed robbery during a staff training exercise in a Dublin H&M store, were awarded €18,000 damages between them in the Circuit Civil Court.

The court heard yesterday that in March 2013, Abbie Kennedy, 11, and her sister Casie, 6, were at H&M in Dundrum Shopping Centre, Dundrum, with their mother Claudia McGrane when the “terrifying” incident happened.

The family had been in one of the store’s changing rooms when they heard someone shouting “everybody get down on the ground, open the fucking till, get down on the ground, what are you looking at?”