$10,000 daylight robbery

Press, 12 February 1982, Page 1

$10,000 daylight robbery

PA Auckland A man with a bloodstained head and shirt walked into ap Auckland store yesterday and asked to telephone the police because he had been robbed of $lO,OOO. Mr Mark Naylor, a courier, told a woman in the shop that he had been set upon by two men in the foyer of the Prudential Building and had been struck about

the head 20 times. Blood covered the back and one side of Mr Naylor’s head and dripped on to his shirt, said the woman shop attendant. There were no eyewitnesses to the attack, which took place as the man entered the building with a payroll for construction workers on the fourth floor. A woman across the lane

said she saw nothing. Two people looking out of a window of a hotel next to the Prudential Building also missed the incident. One assailant grabbed the man from behind while the other punched the victim in the face. They then stole a white canvas Bank of. New Zealand bag in which the $lO,OOO was being carried, and fled.

.Mr Naylor suffered a gashed forehead and bruising in the robbery which took place at 11.40 a.m. One of the attackers is described as being a European, about 182 cm (6ft), of stocky build with a large handlebar moustache and thick, curly, fair hair. He was dressed in jeans, black leather shoes, and a pale green or blue shirt.