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Gardaí ramp up visits to businesses following aggravated burglaries
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway Gardaí are ramping up visits to businesses across the county in an effort to improve crime prevention measures.
It follows two seperate aggravated burglaries which took place at premises in Athenry and Knockdoe in just over a week.
Three men, wearing dark clothing, targetted ‘Daybreak’ in Knockdoe at 9 o’clock Thursday night and managed to flee the scene with cigarettes and cash.
The owner, a woman in her 50s, was struck on the legs a number of times during the incident and received treatment at the scene.
Last week, the 20th of February, three men wearing balaclavas and hoodies entered the home of Frank and Mary Duane, who own the filling station and foodstore in Kiltullagh, about three miles from Athenry.
The gang forced a family member to open the safe of the business and managed to get a reported 10 thousand euro, before fleeing the scene in a car in the direction of Ballinasloe.
They kept the family captive for almost an hour and their son Anthony received a head injury during the incident.