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MONDAY | 22 AUGUST 2011
KENTUCKY FRIED TURKEYS! KFC raiders steal empty cash register
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Kevin Creary
kevin.creary@ieyenews.com
Clueless thieves held up Kentucky Fried Chicken… but snatched the wrong till! The armed robbers struck at the drive-through window of the fast food joint just after 10:30pm on Thursday. Two men wielding a handgun and a machete threatened a member of staff as he served a customer in his car. But they weren’t exactly criminal masterminds as they stole the backup cash register – that was EMPTY! Staff at the West Bay Road branch of the fast food giants, KFC, told iNews that a male cashier, who was assigned to the drive-through window, was busy meeting a customer’s order when he was surprised by a masked gunman. The employee, who asked not to be named, said: “There was a customer in the vehicle, so the cashier was holding his head down while dealing with them. “By the time the cashier lifted up his head, he was staring right at a gun. The robber just walked up to the window and showed his gun and demanded cash. He said ’gimmi di money’.” Continued on page 5
Phone tapping law needs judicial control
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United’s Vidic out for at least a month
POLICE FEAR THE WORST Police have for the first time conceded they “fear the worst” in the search for nurse’s assistant Kerran Baker, 25, missing since 30 July. Acknowledging that little evidence had emerged in the threeweek search, Chief Superintendent John Jones nevertheless said
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the passage of time was working against investigators. “We have a good idea who had BBM contact with her and we are still awaiting forensic tests of her car, apartment and other materials. The prime object is to find out what happened to Kerran Baker’,” he said. Full story on page 13
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