Detectives are appealing for information to help trace three young men who raided a shop with a hammer and two-foot machete – all for eight cans of lager and two bottles of wine.
The robbers – all white and aged in their late teens to early 20s – walked into Northfield’s Select & Save, in Frankley Beeches Road, just before 9.30pm on 26 August before producing the weapons and threatening a staff member.
One stood guard by the entrance with a large machete and an accomplice held a hammer over the shop keeper’s head.
A third attacker put two four-packs of Carling lager and two bottles of Paul Masson wine into a large orange holdall before all three fled.
The machete-wielder is said to be around 5ft 7ins tall with short brown hair; he was wearing a black bandana across his face and large aviator style sunglasses.
The second man was 5ft 10ins tall and is shown on security cameras in a burgundy hooded top with a white ‘Voi’ emblem on the front, while the accomplice with the holdall is seen wearing a black hooded top with a yellow line emblem on the chest.
DC Katie Morris from Birmingham South Police’s Investigation Team, said: “It’s an unusual offence: they’ve gone in armed with weapons but then quickly left with just a small amount of alcohol.
“This was a very frightening incident for the shop staff; the staff member was threatened with a hammer and he’s seen a man enter his shop with a huge machete.
