Bicycle Courier Bandit Strikes Jewellers

Gardaí are searching for a robber - a male - who, posing as a bicycle courier, smashed the front window of a Dublin jewellers and pedaled away to make his escape on two wheels.

Breaking the jeweller's display window with a hammer, he then grabbed a quantity of jewellery and ran to his bicycle.

He then cycled down Dawson Street, onto Schoolhouse Lane via Molesworth Street.

Gardai at Pearse Street Garda Station are appealing for witnesses to the crime, which took place at 11.30am on Monday at Dawson Jewellers, in Dublin 2.

The male is described as wearing a black sleeved top, three quarter length black pants, white runners, tan coloured baseball cap, black gloves and a black smog/dust type face mask that covered his mouth.

He was of athletic build and with fair hair.

Gardai are particularly interested to speak to a male motorcyclist, believed to be a real courier, who may have witnessed the incident.

Any member of the public who was in either the Dawson St, Molesworth St, or Schoolhouse Lane area, on Tuesday between 11.00am and 11.45am, and who may have witnessed the incident or the male concerned, is asked to contact the Gardai at Pearse Street Garda Station.

(DW)