A cash-in-transit deliveryman has described the moment he was 'taken hostage' at work. The worker was trapped alone in a shop in Newton Heath with robber Ashley Hodson, 38, who threatened to shoot him.
Now, in an interview to highlight the work police are doing to stop cash-in-transit robberies, the guard, whose anonymity has been protected, has spoken of his terrifying ordeal.
He was just about to reload a cash machine when he was ambushed. "We'd pulled up to our third to last drop of the day," he said. "I looked to my left...there were a guy there, just stood with a gun to my head, demanding that I give him the money.
