Knife held to driver’s throat during 'frightening' armed robbery ordeal

Lauren Harte

27 May 2024 at 5:54 am·1-min read

The Bank Road area of Larne — -Credit: (Image: Google Street View)

A driver has been left badly shaken after a knife was held to their throat during a frightening armed robbery in Co Antrim, police say.

Detectives are appealing for information and witnesses following the reported incident in Larne yesterday evening, Sunday 26th May. At approximately 8.45pm. police received a report that two males had forced their way into a car in the Bank Road area of the town.

The two men held a knife to the driver’s throat and demanded money before making off from the scene with a purse containing cash.

A PSNI spokesperson said: “Thankfully, no one was injured, however this was a frightening experience for the victim who was left badly shaken by their ordeal. We are currently investigating a number of lines of enquiry to try and identify the suspect.

“I am appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident or to anyone who has CCTV, doorbell or dash-cam footage that could assist our investigation, to contact detectives on 101 quoting reference number 1660 26/5/24.”

A report can also be submitted online using our non-emergency reporting form via http://www.psni.police.uk/makeareport/. You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http://crimestoppers-uk.org/.

For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here and sign up to our daily newsletter here.

Manchester Evening News
Intruder 'will be covered in bruises' after he's caught in family garden at 4am
Kellie Evans had been in bed sleeping when her phone alerted her to the motion outside in the early hours of Sunday morning
Manchester Evening News
Horror as dad stopped at UK airport on flight back home and sent back to Spain
“They told him we’ll all have to go to Spain and start a new life there, or that we should separate and he should go back to Spain by himself - it’s just horrible"
CNN
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered
Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized.
Manchester Evening News
CCTV appeal after youths launch 'appalling' attack on lollipop man as boy, 13, arrested
The victim - a man aged in his 70s - was rushed to hospital with fractured ribs
SWNS
Drivers slam 'worst parking ever' after cars dumped on roundabout outside mosque
Angry drivers have slammed 'Britain's worst parking' after cars were dangerously abandoned on a busy city roundabout outside one of the UK's biggest mosques. Thousands of Muslims descended on Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Small Heath, Birmingham, after celebrating Eid-al-Adha on Monday (17/6). But shocking photos show how dozens of worshippers sparked traffic chaos by dumping their vehicles on one of the busiest roundabouts in the city. Onlookers said there was at least one collision and several near-misses as drivers attempted to reverse off the Poet's Corner roundabout into oncoming traffic. And despite the huge numbers of illegally parked cars, it's believed there were no parking fines issued throughout the morning. Simon Gutteridge, 40, who had been trying to get to work when he got stuck along the A45 Small Heath Highway, said it was a 'miracle nobody was badly hurt or killed'.
The Telegraph
School fines father who took daughter out of school for D-Day event
A school has fined a father who took his 14-year-old daughter out of class to attend the D-Day commemorations.
Manchester Evening News
Manchester gangster arrested at ferry port after fleeing UK
Thomas Bradley was arrested returning to the UK via Holyhead
The Independent
Tattoos gave Marco Pierre White’s son away when his trousers fell down during burglary
Marco Pierre White Jr accidentally mooned his bare backside at the cafe’s CCTV cameras
The Telegraph
Moment police ram cow with car twice
The Home Secretary has demanded an urgent explanation after police officers rammed a cow that was charging around a residential area.
PA Media: UK News
Three arrested after boy, 16, killed by falling tree
Police and paramedics attended but the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
Western Telegraph
Couple caught dealing drugs at hotel after acting strangely and being rude to staff
A COUPLE were busted dealing drugs at a hotel in Milford Haven after they aroused suspicion by acting strangely and being aggressive to staff.
Evening Standard
Missouri woman cleared of murder after 43 years behind bars
Disgraced police officer Michael Holman, a suspect in the slaying of librarian Patricia Jeschke, died in 2015
The Telegraph
Police officer who rammed cow removed from front-line duties
A police officer who was driving a marked car used to ram an escaped calf has been removed from front-line duties, Surrey Police has confirmed.
The Telegraph
Photographer spends two years with traveller families
They are one of Britain’s oldest and, in the view of those who know them, most “misunderstood” minorities.
The Independent
Georgia inmate shoots and kills 24-year-old female food service worker inside the prison’s kitchen
The fatal shooting occurred in the early hours of Sunday at the Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia
Manchester Evening News
DWP Universal Credit warning as 670,000 families to lose £4,300 a year in 'cruel' policy
Families may see their benefit payments restricted due to a new policy
The Telegraph
Farage is right: Wales is an utter disaster
Adam Smith’s dictum – that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation – is being tested to the limit in 21st century Wales. After 25 years of Labour control, it lags behind the rest of the UK on a range of metrics. Nigel Farage is wise to launch his “contract” with the people in Merthyr Tydfil, if his aim is to warn the British public just how much they might suffer under Keir Starmer.
Craven Herald and Pioneer
Yorkshire Three Peaks walker collapses and dies on Penyghent
A WALKER collapsed and died close to the summit of Penyghent early on Saturday morning.
The Telegraph
Clive Myrie: ‘I was told about the kind of bullet that would be used to kill me’
Clive Myrie, the BBC Mastermind host, said he was left “shaken” after receiving death threats which involved “talking about the kind of bullet that he’d use in the gun to kill me”.
Manchester Evening News
'How can one of my twin children be told they're British and the other one not?'
Carl Wylie, 40, returned to the UK after being made redundant in South Africa

Latest stories