Masked raiders make off with haul of watches after daylight robbery at Birkenhead jewellers


A WIRRAL high street jewellers was robbed in broad daylight yesterday.

Three masked raiders smashed the front window of Pykes, on Grange Road, Birkenhead.

They made off with a haul of valuable Breitling watches.

A waiting Mondeo gateaway car sped them off, but was later found burnt out.

It happened at around 4.15pm on Saturday afternoon.

Police are appealing for witnesses of the raid to call 0151 777 2274, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Heswall gang?

this place always getting robbed.think it was earlier in year or late last year was in town when it happened spoke to one old lady who saw getaway car she was really shaken said it just sped past her on pavement at the side of pykes.

Rings bells

So a bunch of campanologists did it?? I'm shocked!

Bloody ramblers lol!

i think i know who may have done these lol. looking at the heswall vid am pretty sure i know who 2 of them are. just by the way 1 of them stand and a jacket 1 is wearing. :S
abit too close to home this 1. they must be mad.

If i thought i might know 2 of them for what ever reason
I wouldn't say or post it on here

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Masked raiders rob Birkenhead jewellers as shoppers look on in horror


Eyewitnesses today described how one of the gang shot the shop’s window and two accomplices smashed it with a hammer and baseball bat.

They then leaned inside and grabbed dozens of luxury watches worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Birkenhead’s Pykes re-opened yesterday, just hours after the attack.

It remains unclear whether the window was shot with a nail-gun or a shotgun.

A staff member, who did not want to be named, told the ECHO: “They shot the window, it was a high-power nail-gun, which went straight through the glass, but not the polycarbonate behind.

“Then they hammered it – they got through the glass and pushed the polycarbonate back. It’s a quarter of an inch thick clear plastic, which is unbreakable.”

Once inside, the raiders, dressed head-to-toe in black, reached inside and grabbed a haul of Breitling watches, worth an average of £4,000 each.

The Pykes employee added: “One of the staff heard the glass go and pushed the attack buttons. The shop filled with smoke and the windows did. But it was so quick that they got in before security devices came in.”

Christmas shoppers wandering past the shop, on busy Grange Road, Birkenhead, witnessed the raid.

Shop assistant Jennifer Ward, 25, who works in the Shoemarket opposite Pykes, rushed to the ground floor window of her shop when she heard the commotion.

She said: “We were downstairs in the basement. We just heard the banging and we ran up because the shop was empty.

“There were these guys and a car was revving. It was pretty damned scary.

“The crowd was watching, but they couldn’t do anything.

“The robbers were smashing at the window with the baseball bat and grabbing. They were trying to get as much stuff as they could.

“They were all in black – all you could see what their eyes. It was out of the movies, it was mad scary”

After around a minute, the raiders piled into a waiting Ford Mondeo, which was pointing towards the Netto on Salisbury Street. It was later found abandoned nearby.

There were no customers inside the shop during the raid.

Pykes was last targeted by smash-and-grab burglars in June.

The attack is also similar to a jewellery heist in Heswall at the end of November, but police are not linking the two incidents.

Then three men wearing white boiler suits drilled through the front window of Hallmark on Pensby Road.

They then smashed the window with a sledge hammer and made off with up to £100,000 of jewels.

The Birkenhead raid happened at around 4.15pm on Saturday.

Police are appealing for witnesses to call 0151 777 2274, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.



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its getting to much i work in wigan and there was an attempted armed robbery there on friday evening funny enough there was 3 of them in a mondeo who knows scary times.

nah i aint mentioning any names or nothing and the people i think it may be certainly wouldnt come on here

but the coppers might!

blow em up lad, I wont tell anyone you did

yea but the copper's cant do nothing for me thinking i may know who it is. i just say 'no comment' an what can they do? lol and no andy i wont lol

I was joshing wiv ya

I think that will come under. Obstruction of Justice


Perverting the course of justice

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense

I had that said to me the other week for my number plate. I asked the copper after his speech
"Am I under arrest for my plate?"

to which my reply was no just telling to your rights lol.

no it wouldn't lol. for me saying ' I think i may know who that is ' certainly not. fair enough if i said i know who it is. they can't do nothing on the basis that someone who werent even at the crime scene thinks they know who it might be. that just b*ll*cks. imagine that in the court ? yea we have a witness who says he thinks he knows who they are because of how 1 of them stands and the jacket another is wearing. lol it would be laughed out of court.

lmao!!! errrrr av been done for Perverting the course of justice in the past, so er i should have some idea

most things are laughed out of court anyway..

fair enough concealing evidence. i aint arguing the fact that i could be done for that. but me thinking i know who done it wouldn't exactly be called 'evidence'. there is no possible way that if a police officer came on here and read what i had wrote and arrested me that if i said i aint saying nothing that i would get done. thats just daft. and i know that for a fact.

Do you get the feeling that maybe you'd have been better not saying anything

yups