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£10,000 reward after casino ram raid by lorry
Aug 19 2005
The owners of a Birmingham casino have put up a reward of £10,000 for information that leads to the capture of two robbers who made off with a "substantial" amount of money following a ram raid.
Detectives have also appealed to the public to tell them if they know of anyone who has recently come into money, especially a large number of £50 notes, which made up the majority of the cash haul.
On Sunday night, ram raiders used a seven-and-a-half tonne flatbed lorry - stolen from an industrial yard in Tyseley 30 minutes earlier - to crash through a rear wall of the Midland Wheel casino in Edgbaston.
As the dust settled, two men wearing balaclavas clambered through the rubble-strewn hole and threatened a male cashier in an office. They scooped up banknotes before fleeing.
Police at Rose Road station recovered the white Iveco lorry, registration number L824 HCP.
