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calendar   Thursday - October 02, 2008

Shop staff fight off Samurai attacker with a broom.  (video and commentary)

I’m sorry they didn’t cripple or kill the creep, because you just know in three years time he’s gonna be out and doing the same thing. Maybe next time he’ll nail an easier target.
Animals like this that are caught right at the time and where there is certainly no mistake and no question as to what they were up to, should be immediately shot by the police. 

This store owner got very lucky. This Time. 

Shop staff used a broom to fight off a Samurai sword wielding robber and locked him in a store cupboard to until the police arrived.


By Richard Savill
Last Updated: 9:48PM BST 01 Oct 2008

Andrew Speed, 18, a drug addict, had not expected such spirited resistance at the Londis store in Southmead, Bristol.

Jailing Speed for three-and-a-half years at Bristol Crown Court, Judge David Ticehurst said the self-defence of the staff was ‘entirely reasonable’ given the terrifying circumstances.

Speed even begged officers to arrest him quickly to spare him from the family’s retaliation, the court heard.

He had burst in and leapt on to the counter before lunging at Rameshkumar Rasiah, the shop assistant, thrusting the 18-inch blade at him.

The teenager threatened: “I am going to stab you; I am going to kill you.”

But Mr Rasiah, 31, who only recently arrived in Britain from Sri Lanka, grabbed him and the sword and called for reinforcements.

Mr Rasiah’s sister, Suragini Jeyanthan, 28, and her husband, Nagaratnam Jeyanthan, 29, who were upstairs, ran to his aid armed with a broom and a metal pipe.

The three shop staff grappled with the robber for two minutes and eventually bundled him into the store cupboard, and locked him inside.

When he was eventually escorted from the shop by police he urged them to protect him, pleading: “Please, keep them away from me, I will not play up, get me out of here.”

Speed, of Southmead, Bristol, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years’ youth detention at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday. The court heard he went to the shop to try to get money for drugs.

Mr Rasiah, who suffered cuts and bruises to his palm and elbow, said the robber had “picked on the wrong shopkeeper”.

“I was absolutely terrified but adrenaline took over and I knew I had to stop him from stealing anything,” he said. “I was not backing down because I knew I had to protect the shop for my boss.”

The raid happened at a Londis convenience store run by Mr Jeyanthan in Southmead, at 5.30am on June 9, shortly after Mr Rasiah had opened up.

The shop’s CCTV system caught the teenager, whose face was hidden by a scarf, as he walked in and threatened Mr Rasiah with the blade.

Mr Jeyanthan, who has a five-month old daughter, said outside court, “We don’t feel like heroes; we were protecting ourselves and our shop.”

He added: “This was the first knife we’ve seen in four years here and I was shocked.

“I felt like closing the shop for good but now I think we will be staying because I feel we have the support of the community.”

Speed admitted assault with intent to rob and possession of an offensive weapon.

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