| Mr Patel struggled with the raider, Justin Conway, and the plastic gun broke in two. |
| The raider made him open the bank, then threatened staff at gunpoint as they arrived for work. |
| In October another shopworker was subjected to a similar ordeal by a knife-wielding raider. |
| In a passage on the war years, he includes the story about the single German air raider firing on the fish shop. |
| Nevertheless, they recovered the stolen paintings almost undamaged and put the raider behind bars in little over a year. |
| There were numerous occasions when the threat of gunfire caused a raider to sheer off at speed. |
