Jewellery shop targeted in suspected ram-raid

RAIDERS have once again targeted a small city jewellery shop that was once the scene of a terrifying armed gems heist.

- SOPHIE DOUGHTY

Scene of a previous raid at Sunny Jewellers, also right

Police are hunting the occupants of a van that was reversed into Sunny Jewellers shop, in Newcastle's West End, on Tuesday afternoon.

The suspected ram-raid left the specialist Asian jewellery shop, on Tamworth Road in Arthur's Hill, damaged. And police say those inside the white Ford Transit fled the scene.

Tuesday's 4pm incident came almost eight years after Sunny Jewellers was the scene of a shocking daytime robbery in which a sophisticated crime gang got away with £300,000 worth of jewellery in just 50 seconds.

A local shopkeeper, who knows the family that run the jewellers, has told of his shock that the business has been hit again.

The man, who did not want to be named, said: "I have known them for a long time. It's not nice, they are good people.