Diamond seller from England settles action

An English diamond jewellery salesman who was robbed of diamond rings and bracelets worth in the region of €400,000 and attacked in a Dublin hotel when three armed men burst in to his room as he was sleeping yesterday sued the hotel in the High Court.

Noah Stefanicki was hit over the head with a hammer by one armed man as another shouted “shoot him, shoot him” when the masked raiders, who also had a pistol, burst in to his hotel room at the Travelodge Hotel, Ballymun, six years ago.

The jewllery salesman, who never went anywhere without his small black bag containing the valuable diamond jewellery tackled one of the raiders and also ran after them, Mr Justice Seamus Noonan was told.