Aggravated Burglary at Allenwood South, Co. Kildare on the 22/9/12

The Gardaí at Naas Garda Station are investigating an Aggravated Burglary that occurred at Allenwood South, Co Kildare, on Sunday, the 22nd September.

At approximately 6am a couple and their two young children aged seven and six years old were in bed in their home when their house alarm activated.  At first believing it was set off by their dog moving around, the husband deactivated the alarm.  The husband heard a noise coming from downstairs and went down to investigate.  He went into the kitchen and turned on the lights, he heard a shuffling noise coming from the utility room.  He opened the utility room door and was confronted by two masked men.  The husband and the men struggled with each other, the husband held onto the door, one of the raiders demanded the handbags that were on the kitchen counter. The husband shouted upstairs to his wife to call the Gardaí.

As the struggle continued the husband grabbed the handbags off the counter and gave them to the raiders and fled the scene to a waiting car nearby.

 Appeal:

• Gardaí are appealing to anyone in the Allenwood South area during the early hours of Sunday 22nd September to come forward.

• The men took two ladies bags from the house.  A royal blue ladies bag and a black Calvin Klein.

• The raiders had a car parked nearby did anyone see this vehicle or any other vehicle acting suspiciously in the area?

• The raiders had to have local knowledge, did you see anyone acting suspiciously in the area in the days and weeks prior to the 22nd September.

Description of Raiders:

Raider 1:  Between five foot eight inches in height and five foot ten inches, aged 30’s / 40’s, wearing dark woolly gloves, three hole balaclava, over-sized mouth with 2 days of dark stubble around the mouth, navy padded jacket cloth material sleeveless.  (Logo on left lapel can be seen on footage).

Raider 2:   Between five foot five inches and five foot six inches in height, smaller of the two, slight build, black Adidas peaked baseball cap, red and white scarf wrapped carefully around the lower half of his face.