Birmingham: Robbers ransack jewellery store in £300,000 heist captured on CCTV

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Video showed glass flying as the truck reversed into the shop causing the front to collapse - with a staff member almost struck by falling debris

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerArmed robbers have been shown in CCTV footage using a stolen truck to smash into a jewellery shop before taking almost £300,000 worth of stock.

The gang rammed a highway maintenance vehicle into Danyaal Jewellers in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, before ransacking the store in a daytime raid on 3 March last year. , narrowly escaping serious injury.Three masked men were then seen smashing display cabinets using a sledgehammer and grabbing gold jewellery.

A fourth man stayed inside the vehicle, a Toyota Hilux, while a fifth acted as"crowd control" waving an axe at onlookers. They spent just 70 seconds at the scene before fleeing, abandoning the truck less than half a mile away and speeding off in an Audi.More on Birmingham

 

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