A postmaster from Burton was woken up around 4am to find three armed robbers on his landing in his house.<\/p>\n
The gang hit Mohammad Ali over the head with a crowbar and threatened him with a gun.<\/p>\n
Mr Ali from Burton was woken up at around 4am on Friday, September 13, were armed with a gun, a knife from his kitchen and crowbar.<\/p>\n
The attack happened at the post office in Main Street, Stretton, which is attached to Mr Ali’s house, and saw the burglars leave with thousands of pounds.<\/p>\n
Mr Ali is offering a reward of \u00a31,000 out of his own pocket for any information which leads to a successful prosecution.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old said: “We are all traumatised. I was sleeping and around 4am I heard footsteps on the floorboards.”<\/p>\n
“I came out of the bedroom and three individuals were on the first landing.”<\/p>\n
“One of them was standing very close to the entrance of my bedroom, so I grabbed him from behind and he turned round with a big kitchen knife and a crowbar.”<\/p>\n
“I think he hit me with the crowbar. I grabbed it and pushed him downstairs and over the banister.”<\/p>\n
“With all the noise of him going over the stairs and voices on the landing with me having a go at the guy, my wife and two kids came out of their rooms as well.”<\/p>\n
“I tried to hit the guy with the crowbar and the third guy appeared holding a shotgun.”<\/p>\n
“He was asking for the crowbar and then a shot was fired into the wall.”<\/p>\n
“My family shouted to give it to them as they were going to shoot us. I put it on the floor of the landing.”<\/p>\n
“Then they duct taped us all and demanded we should give them the cash.”<\/p>\n
One of the men stayed with the family while the other two – one of which looked to have a limp from falling down the stairs – took Mohammad Ali to get the cash.<\/p>\n
Mr Ali was left with a head injury which needed five stitches. It was first thought he might have suffered a fractured skull and he was taken to Burton’s Queen’s Hospital.<\/p>\n
The postmaster said the burglars had gone into the house to try and find the keys to the post office.<\/p>\n
Although he already had security measures in place, Mohammad Ali will now be introducing more around the property.<\/p>\n
It’s not the first time the post office had been targeted – there was a similar incident in 2017, but the offenders never went in the house part of the property.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Ali said: “It is quite a busy road and was the early hours of the morning so quite a lot of people were around.”<\/p>\n
“Somebody must have seen the car parked while it was picking them up, they left between 5.50am and 6am.”<\/p>\n
Staffordshire Police has previously said one of the robbers was wearing a grey tracksuit, the second was also wearing a dark tracksuit and the third was wearing a blue jacket.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the raid or has any information should call 101, quoting incident 87 of September 13.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, they call the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
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