Friday, September 10, 2010

Held at gunpoint Graff partner Petra Ehnar approaching the worst

Adam Fresco, Crime Correspondent ,}

A emporium partner taken warrant during an armed 40 million trinket raid was absolutely shocked and thought she would be shot if anything went wrong, a justice listened today.

Petra Ehnar pronounced that she approaching the misfortune as she was led at gunpoint to a getaway car by dual men who had forced her colleagues to the building of Graff Diamonds and in jeopardy to fire them if they did not co-operate, Woolwich Crown justice was told.

As the men done their shun a shot was dismissed and, Ms Ehnar said, she did not know if she had been hit.

The partner had been operative at the London store for usually 3 and half months when, the charge says, Aman Kassaye, 24, and Craig Calderwood, 27, entered the emporium in Central London in Aug last year.

Recounting her ordeal, Ms Ehnar pronounced that both men pulled out guns after asking to see at a two-carat solid ring displayed in the window.

She said: I attempted to get down on the floor. I threw myself down and the black man comes towards me with a gun and says, Not you, youre going to assistance us, you are going to open the windows.

Mr Kassaye systematic Ms Ehnar to open the showcases prior to emptying trinket into a bag, together with a solid necklace value 3.5 million, the justice was told.

I recollect he came towards me with a gun and afterwards he was so close I didnt dare to see at him, Ms Ehnar said. He proposed to transparent out the windows, he had a bag, he was grabbing handfuls of trinket fast and shoving it in the bag.

I didnt see at him any more. I didnt wish to have eye contact, Ms Ehnar said.

She pronounced that she was forced to insist to Mr Kassaye that she indispensable to press a symbol to pivot the trinket displays, in box he believed that she was pressing an alarm.

Philip Bennetts, for the prosecution, asked: What was your regard at that stage? Ms Ehnar replied: Life or death. I was terrified.

Mr Kassaye told her that she was going with them, the justice heard.

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