Two robbers armed with an axe broke into a Whitton jewellers before escaping on a moped this morning.
One of the masked thieves stormed into L.Guess Jeweller, in Whitton High Street, at 10.44am, stuffed watches and jewellery into a bag before jumping back on the bike outside.
See below for the CCTV images showing jeweller Mark Guess chasing the gang down the road with a baseball bat
Owner Mark Guess, who chased the intruders into the road, said though he was still taking stock but he believed between £10,000-£20,000 worth of watches and a large diamond solitaire ring woth £15,000 had been stolen.
He said: “They came up on a moped, kicked the door open, axe in hand and it all happened within about 60 seconds.
Picture: Whitton Weekly
“I ran after him and nearly got him. He had an axe and our initial thought was 'it’s not a gun, which is handy'.”
Mr Guess has worked at the family-run jewellers for 25 years, and said he was last robbed nine years ago.
He said: “It’s just one of those things. It’s the noise and the shock more than anything.”
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