CHANNEL 4 viewers were left fuming tonight after a robber who pulled a knife on a pregnant woman got away with the crime. 999: What’s Your Emergency showed cops swooping on the village of Catcliffe, South Yorkshire after a heist at a Nisa Local. The bloke is seen strolling into the store with his hood […]
CHANNEL 4 viewers were left fuming tonight after a robber who pulled a knife on a pregnant woman got away with the crime.
999: What’s Your Emergency showed cops swooping on the village of Catcliffe, South Yorkshire after a heist at a Nisa Local.
The bloke is seen strolling into the store with his hood up, before pulling out an enormous knife.
He then forced the shop assistant, who was 23 weeks pregnant, to open the till.
PC Kirsty Smith said: “To be threatened by any knife is scary but to be threatened when you’re pregnant is horrific.”
She added: “He looks like a kind of desperate-times kind of robber. For armed robbers to target convenience stores have to be pretty desperate and local.
“They’re not going to get much money. You’re threatening someone with a knife for the sake of £50.”
Mandeep, who has ran the shop since 2017, sold it saying: “Why should somebody be able to come into my store and help themselves?
“The government need to look at why people are doing it – why are they turning to this sort of crime to get by?”
However, the voiceover at the end revealed cops never caught the man who robbed the place because they couldn’t figure out who he was.
It said solemnly: “Although police were unable to identify the knife-wielding robber, the shop assistant he threatened has now had her baby.”
One viewer fumed: “A knife pulled on a pregnant woman, absolutely disgusting.”
Another wrote: “The poor girl hope she’s ok. More vile scum with knives.”
Several others were shocked nobody on the programme, which shows a variety of crimes, ended up being jailed for what was shown on screen.
One wrote: “Full hour of incidents on #999whatsyouremergency and not one criminal gets convicted?!”
Another asked: “So nobody got done for anything?”
