A 65 year old man was left speechless on Monday, after a thug stole his voice at knifepoint.
The un-named man called Barry, who uses an electronic device to talk, had his machine snatched away from him during an armed robbery in a Wirral bar.
The robbery occurred at around 1.30 a.m., as the man was locking up the pub at which he works in Prenton. A man wearing a ski-mask and holding a knife burst into the bar and threatened the worker. Police have confirmed that the thief was not wearing skis on his feet as originally reported by a rival newspaper.
Holding him at knifepoint, he first insisted that the man empty the till, and then demanded to be taken to the safe. When the bar man asked the thief if he had a ski pass he was hit with an avalanche of abuse.
As a parting gesture, after ransacking both the cash register and the safe – stealing around £800 in the process – the thief also grabbed the man's electronic speaking device and pocketed it, before running off into the night. The bar man was left speechless after the incident, which is understandable giving the circumstances.
A witness who did not wish to be named, who saw the thief’s escape was able to confirm some details to us.
“I was walking home at about 1.25am after being to my local Boot Scoot Club for a night of line dancing. I was walking passed my local pub balancing my kebab in one hand whilst fumbling in my pocket for my keys.”
The witness did not confirm if he had chilli sauce on his kebab or not.
“I was no more than one hundred yards away when I could hear a disturbance behind me. To my shock, as I turned in the direction of the pub I could see a man of about average height wearing black clothing and a ski mask on his head. I watched as he burst out of the pub door and ran at some great speed down the road towards a car. He was shouting in a strange Dalek type of voice back towards the pub. I could distinctly hear him shout See you later granddad and Exterminate, exterminate, I am a Dalek. Before he entered the car and drove away at some speed. I was that shocked I almost spilt my kebab on the floor. I rushed to the pub to see Barry one of the staff stagger out into the street. I asked him what had happened but he was unable to tell me as his voice had been stolen, what a swine. A police car pulled up outside the pub about thirty minutes later I gave a statement and was allowed home.”
Police have not issued a description of the voice box in question but we believe it has no resemblance to a Dalek at all. A few days after the incident another man claimed he too had had his voice stolen in a separate incident. However, it has now been dismissed as an unconnected incident as it has been established that the person had merely caught a cold.
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