POLICE will today return to the scene of a robbery where a gang targeted the same Hampshire bank where two armed robbers were shot dead.
Last Thursday morning a man wearing a balaclava approached a courier delivering cash to the HSBC branch in Chandler’s Ford and demanded he hand over the cash box. The robber then escaped into a waiting car.
Police found the vehicle, a silver Volvo S40, abandoned less than half a mile away in Shaftesbury Avenue, off Chalvington Road.
The money box, which could have contained more than £10,000, had been emptied.
Detectives and uniformed officers will be at the scene from 9.30am today, a week on from the raid, to speak to anyone who may have witnessed it but has not yet come forward.
They are hoping for a breakthrough in the case and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who might recognise the getaway car. Officers have been trawling through hours of CCTV footage in a bid to identify those responsible and trace the car’s movements before it was used.
They know it was in Chandler’s Ford in the two weeks before the robbery but don’t know its movements in the days immediately before the raid.
Officers ruled out any link between that raid and the previous robbery, in September 2007, when Mark Nunes, 35, and Andrew Markland, 36, were shot dead by police after Nunes threatened a G4S security guard with a gun.
An inquest jury ruled that the robbers were lawfully killed.
Anyone with information can contact the Operation Torchwood investigation team by calling Hampshire police on 101.
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