Bedfordshire c-store ram raided by JCB

A convenience store in Bedfordshire was ram raided during the early hours of Friday (19). 

According to local reports, just after 12.15am, a JCB was driven into the front of Sandy convenience store located in the Market Square. 

When police officers were dispatched to the scene, a Ford transit van drove towards the High Street, colliding with the passenger side of the police vehicle. The suspects then fled in a black vehicle, leaving the van behind. 

A similar incident happened at another convenience store in Silsoe a week before on Aug 12. Police believe that the two incidents are interlinked. 

“We believe this is linked to a similar incident at a convenience store in Blackthorn Place, Silsoe in the early hours of last Friday morning (August 12), in which a white van and a black Range Rover were involved, and the ATM was taken,” detective Sergeant Graham Williams from Bedfordshire Police said. 

“We are doing all we can to identify those responsible and I would urge anyone who has any information, or any mobile phone or CCTV footage on either incident, which will help us with our enquiries, to please get in touch.”