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70-year-old NRI hailed for bravery
in UK
WSN Network
London: A
70-year-old Sikh employee has been awarded 300 pounds as a bravery
award, for fearlessly fending off a robber who brandished a knife
and took a customer hostage in his shop.
Harbhajan Singh,
who works at the Costcutter store in
Stevenage,
Hertfordshire, showed no fear when the robber threatened him with a
knife. Singh hit him over his head with an iron bar.
"I didn't have
any fear, my daughter and family were in trouble and I had to
protect them. My aim was to disarm him so I hit him on the hand to
make him drop the gun, but he came back with a knife, so I hit him
on the head," Singh said.
For his actions,
grandfather Singh has been hailed locally as a hero and dubbed the "Turbanator".
He was working
behind the till of the shop when one Deryk Traylen ran into the shop
claiming to have a gun and took a customer hostage.
Traylen, 35,
locked the shop door then went up to the counter and demanded money
from Singh's son-in-law. But, Singh grabbed an iron bar from behind
the shop counter, then crept up behind the robber and hit him on the
hand to disarm him.
Traylen then
pretended to leave but came back with a 12 inch knife, so the
elderly shop worker hit him over the head.
Singh's daughter
and son-in-law then stopped the man escaping while they waited for
the police.
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February 2009 |
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