Published on Friday 27 April 2012 18:58
A jeweller today relived the moment his shop was robbed by two men claiming to be police officers.
The pair fled with £30,000 of jewellery and £3,000 in cash from Bhupendra Soni’s shop, Sohum Jewellers, on Meadow Street, Preston
The shop, which specialises in Asian jewellery, was targeted on Thursday afternoon.
The men were dressed as police officers and told Bhupendra, 56, they were investigating a case involving stolen jewellery.
He said: “They were dressed as police, they had a radio on and everything.
“They said they had caught somebody in Merseyside with stolen goods and they had given our shop name.”
Bhupendra, his wife Kusum, 51 and son Chetan, 31, believed the men were police officers.
They were told to wait in the kitchen and Bhupendra said that the robbers then tied “plastic ties” around their wrists.
Tearful, he said: “They told us not to worry if we heard any noise because they would be looking around.
“We waited about 10 minutes and then my son came into the shop and realised everything had gone.
He added: “I usually don’t open the door but I saw that they were police men - I didn’t expect them to rob me.
“We were all just really shocked.”
Police have now released a CCTV image of the black car the robbers fled in.
The men were carrying radios and seemed to be communicating with a third person.
Both men were aged between 25 and 40, around six feet tall and of heavy build. One had short brown hair and the other had a shaven head.
One of the men had a tattoo on the back of his neck. The other man a word tattooed on his inner left forearm.
Call police on 101.
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