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Third arrest in iPod robbery hunt

Evening Standard
17 Feb 2009


POLICE today made a third arrest in the hunt for the iPod robbery gang who shot two teenagers at the weekend.

In a dawn raid officers swooped on the home of a 15-year-old boy who was held in connection with the shooting.

Two other boys, aged 14 and 15, were still being questioned by police today about the attack on the two victims, aged 18 and 19, on Blackbird Hill, Neasden, on Saturday night.

Police are appealing for witnesses.

 

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