Raid On Jewellers

Published on 03/02/12

A brave jewellery shop boss who fought violent armed robbers today vowed he wouldn’t quit his business.

Sam Brown fell down a flight of stairs after he was kicked in the stomach by a man wielding a sledgehammer. But the plucky manager of Lister Horsfall jewellers, in Ilkley, chased the gang out of the shop and grappled with one of them before he was threatened with the sledgehammer.

After two of the gang were each jailed for 12 years yesterday, Mr Brown said: “I didn’t think about it at the time. I don’t think I was being brave. It makes you consider the career you’re in, but I won’t let it get in the way of doing my job.”