ESSEX Police is appealing for information about an armed robbery at a Purfleet shop.
Three men entered the Purfleet General Store in London Road at 8pm on Sunday, October 21.
One was armed with a knife and another had what appeared to be a gun covered with a plastic bag.
These two men threatened a shop assistant and one demanded he open the till. However the victim was unable to open it and no money was taken.
Their accomplice stole two bottles of vodka.
A second shop assistant challenged the robbers, who fled the store.
The suspect carrying the knife was described as black, aged 18 to 23, about 6ft tall and slim. He wore a black body warmer, a T-shirt and dark grey jeans.
The man who had what appeared to be a gun was described as black, aged in his early 20s, and wore a black hoodie and dark face mask.
Investigating officer PC Beth Finch said: “I’m hoping the CCTV footage will jog the memories of anyone who was in the area at the time and can remember seeing these men.
“I know it’s not the clearest footage, but someone in Purfleet will know who these people are.
“If you have any information that can help us identify them please get in touch.”
Contact PC Finch at Grays CID on 101 quoting reference 42/153703/18.
Alternatively, contact the Crimestoppers charity 100% anonymously on 0800 555 111 or use the anonymous online form at Crimestoppers-uk.org
You can also report online at www.essex.police.uk/do-it-online
If you carry a gun like this the police should have the right to shoot to kill.
He can write in a formal complaint afterwards in triplicut. Oh I forgot he is dead. well it saves on paperwork.
The police in the States shoot people like this left right and centre.
One question we could ask is why are so many 20’s turning to guns and crime?
How are those local prats gang C17 or what ever they called doing? missed there last youtube Drill song. I think its called Dancing Queen. lol.
C17 if you lot were in South Chicago where Drill came from the Police would “Ice” you.
Catching the Bus – They turn to guns and crime because they feel they have no future. There’s also an element of status-building involved and they feel that it’s their only option to gain status. If there wasn’t such a feeling of a lack of future brought about by the Tories austerity measures and the global financial crisis from 2008 which wasn’t caused by Labour but Labour’s actions prior to the crisis didn’t help the UK’s financial resiliance, there might have been a chance to avoid the problem growing as large as it has. The lack of police officers, due to Tory cuts, hasn’t helped prevent the growth in crime with huge spikes UK-wide in virtually every type of crime including, unfortunately, gun crime and non-gun-related violent crime. I’m sure there are people out there who will blame the poor and disabled for the crime problem but most sensible people will realise that the fault lies firmly on the shoulders of the Tories and their policies.
None of us have any future. I doubt Social mobility has ever been good in the UK or US.
But it will get even worse and yes the Tories. Help no end in this with giving the Police cuts while when the
benksters were broke did they say to them. you have to live within your means and take personal responsibility for your lifestyle choices.
Nope.
Now the banksters are even more exposed than before and will crash.
With things like student Debt over 1Trillion in the States and rising in the UK kids have little chance maybe less than us.
Valen they will blame the Poor and Disabled for the next crash. They did in Germany in the 30’s along with Jews. and it was the disabled who were first to get wacked.
Mark my words we will have some Right wing nut in power and a massive death total both here and abroad.
First the Commies were the bad guys then it was the socialists. then the Liberals. then the progressives. Now it is the media being called “the enemy of the people”. Then there was no one else to speak out.
All for what?
Catching the Bus – “Mark my words we will have some Right wing nut in power and a massive death total both here and abroad” – I think you’ll find that that’s already the case.
I take it you are talking about the Tory austerity 120,000 deaths.
With the UK ppopulation at 66 Million thats 1 in 550 people.
With Thurrock having a population of 170000.
That means 1 in 309 thurrock residents dead.
Just wanted to clarify the Thurrock figure. It means 309 dead in 8 years.
170000/550 = 309
Thats shocking the 120.000 UK figure. I’m going to be sick.
Cookie – more drivel. Although I agree in part.
Like the addiction issue, one has a choice and there’s is to carry a knife or gun. Hard penalties is what is needed to make it safe for the decent people.
Most gang members don’t want to work for a living, drugs and robbery is much easier, more rewarding and gives them street creed.
CTB – I agree, shot to kill and make the streets a safer place. Scum, that’s all they are.No good to anyone.
“don’t want to work for a living”
I think thats stereo typical. As most Ex Gang members do work.
Though it does not help that most like me are on zero hours contracts not knowing if we will get the hours needed. But I live in hope that Reagans 1980 trickle down effect will finally kick in.
Yeah, the trickle down effect has been a bit slow I have to agree. But then if we benefited in anyway we would be hammered by taxation to keep us on the floor.
Trust me CTB ask any shop in Grays about our colonial cousins coming in and just taking.It is rife. Happens everyday.
“Yeah, the trickle down effect has been a bit slow?”
It was a scam as you dam well know.
But then we must give the dum people who keep voting Republican since 1980 a bit of hope as we ship the SKILLED jobs in the 80’s to Asia and Mexico.
Didn’t Maggie do the same?
How did that turn out for glorious Britain and America?
thurrocksgonedownhill – You’re being a dick again. No change there then. You keep spouting crap about addiction when you have no knowledge of the psychology of addiction otherwise you wouldn’t make such stupid remarks on the subject.
From what I can see, I can’t see anywhere where you agree with me in part. Unless it’s something you deleted or thought you put in your comment.
There is no evidence that hard punishments cause a reduction in crime, violent or otherwise. There is, however, evidence that the chances of being caught does reduce crime. The answer is to have more police to increase the chances of criminals being caught, something that isn’t going to happen under the Tories.
“Most gang members don’t want to work for a living” – The truth is that there isn’t enough of the right type of work for those that fall in with gangs to do. A lot of gang members have low educational attainment and the vacancies for the type of work they can genuinely go for just aren’t there in sufficient numbers so they turn to gangs and the inherent crime and violence that goes with that life.
You keep looking down at whole groups of people as if they are inferior to you which makes you a detestable ‘man’ (and I use ‘man’ in the very loosest terms). I won’t get into another argument with you because you don’t listen, you don’t think and you never give any real evidence for your views and that makes having a real debate with you impossible. Of course, that’s because there are people out there, like you, who are so intractable in their beliefs that they can’t see further than their own interests, so devoid of Humanity that they look down on others who are disadvantaged, so morally and ethically bankrupt that they miss the point of what it is to be a good human being. I pity the intractable people, like you, because you will never know what it’s like to be the better person they could be if only you had the strength and because you are weak, too weak to realise that you are the problem not the solution.
Veni, vidi, iterum calce asinus tuus, TGDH!
thurrocksgonedownhill – Quick edit: “I pity the intractable people, like you, because you will never know what it’s like to be the better person they could be if only you had the strength and because you are weak, too weak to realise that you are the problem not the solution.” – should have read “I pity the intractable people, like you, because you will never know what it’s like to be the better person YOU could be if only you had the strength and because you are weak, too weak to realise that you are the problem not the solution.”
That’s the trouble with cutting and pasting text but that’s the price I paid for not wanting to re-type a section from another comment I made here on YT ’cause you just aren’t worth the effort.
Cookie, I thought you were not going to respond to me with more drivel.
You know nothing about me thankfully as I do not associate with the likes of you. What I will say is I do lots of charitable work every week. Working in various aspects of life and I see whats going on, trust me.
It is Labour wets like you that allow society to de-generate like it has. No doubt you would give these gang members and society’s scum new trainers and a new phone and say please be a good boy.
The problem you never want to admit to is we all have a choice, even you with your feeble weakness to addictions,which you never say what they are, so come on cookie is it drugs, gambling, alcohol ?…Don’t be shy.
Serious consequences for ones actions will make people think twice. Carry a knife – 5 years hard labour. Stab someone 10 years hard labour. Kill someone – execution. Trust me it is the only way forward cause your namby pamby approach sure ain’t working.
You, no doubt would support the offender rather than the victim.
I would have thought you would see what is really going on out there, being on benefits and sponging of us tax payers.
“we all have a choice”,
I see these sayings used by the far right all the time but when
the benksters were broke did they say to them. you have to live within your means and take personal responsibility for your lifestyle choices.
Nope.
What was the slogan “too big to fail. too big to jail.”
Catching the Bus – Totally agree with your comment that the Right always say that people have a choice. The thing is, it’s usually the people with the most amount of cash and assets that say it and, of course, with loads of cash and assets they do have a choice. The poor and disadvantaged (including the disabled) tend to have fewer choices if any. I’m sure the in-work poor don’t like going to foodbanks to feed their family but, until there is a real living wage and some control on the increase in the cost of living, there isn’t much of an option other than going to a foodbank. There are many people with mental ill-health, like me, who would prefer to be in work but our options are limited by our mental health conditions and the still-too-prevalent prejudice amongst employers against employing people with mental ill-health. I’m sure that there are many physically disabled people who would prefer to be in work but their options are limited by their physical disabilities and the fact that the Tories have slashed the funding for the schemes that were meant to help employers make the reasonable adjustments to their workplace to help integrate disabled workers. It’s a pathetic situation to have so much prejudice towards people whose life chances are seriously curtailed by the thinking and actions of the Right but that’s the situation we have to live with.
The rich can also afford to get justice which is being denied the poor and the lower paid people can’t decide not to pay income tax whereas the rich can take measures to avoid so much tax that they pay a smaller percentage of their income than poor people do. This leads to the problem that the rich get richer whilst the poor can’t manage to put their foot on even the lowest rung of the prosperity ladder because they simply can’t afford to save any money. This isn’t their fault and the only choice they have is to try to vote in a government that will listen to their concerns and actually do something about them.
You seem to have a good handle on the problems facing the less well off but there are some people who simply look down on them, stick two fingers up at them and say “well it’s all your own fault because we all have a choice”. They are the people who only think of themselves and don’t even try to understand the complex reasons for some people’s lives being so crappy. They are the people who think they’re superior to those less fortunate than themselves but prove themselves time and time again to be wholly inferior.