Bandits in shirt and tie, rob PH driver

According to police reports, at about 10.45 am, the victim of Carapichaima was plying his Nissan Note for hire near St Mary’s, Freeport district when two men boarded the car .

The men who were clad both in long sleeve shirts and ties asked to be taken to the Waterloo district .

Reports are that while in the vicinity of Waterloo Road the men pulled out guns and announced a hold-up. The bandits ordered the driver to hand over his cash .

The driver was robbed of $1,500 by the men who then jumped out and ran off. “I never once thought that these two welldressed men could be bandits,” the driver later told police. No arrest has been made and Freeport police are investigating .