Gala Bingo in hostage ordeal

Bingo is not usually classed as a dangerous occupation, but for 3 employees at the Gala Bingo hall at High Street, Kettering this was not sadly not the case this week.

Four smartly dressed, and as yet unidentified men, knocked on the door and upon being let in proceeded to tie up, assault and hold hostage the 3 unfortunate members of staff who were in the building, before escaping with a considerable amount of money. The 2 men and 1 woman were taken to the General Hospital but have since been released with what has been described as minor injuries.

Forensic teams were immediately called in, whilst the hall was closed for the rest of the day. Chief Inspector Andy Collins, commented: “I’d like to reassure people that incidents of this type are very rare, but when they do happen we treat them very seriously indeed. We have a team of officers working flat out to catch the people responsible for this despicable crime. We are urging anybody who was in the area between 9.40am and 10am and thinks they saw anything suspicious to contact police.” Detective Inspector Andy Nichols, added: “Reading between the lines, this has happened shortly after they have opened up.I would imagine it will be a substantial amount of cash. We will be trawling all of the CCTV in the area. We take matters like this very seriously.”

A Gala Bingo spokesman stated: “As always our main concern is for the safety of our staff, and we are working closely with police. We took the staff in for observation and they were obviously very shaken by the incident, but they have now been released.”

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