A trial is underway over an incident in which a takeaway owner
in Scotland was forced to fight off an armed robber using a curry
pot lid and a meat cleaver.
Derek Tang, 44, had no choice but to turn to crockery to defend
himself and his staff when his China Town takeaway shop in Linwood,
Renfrewshire, was robbed by a man identified as Allan Fordyce on
6th June last year.
Giving evidence in Paisley Sheriff Court before Sheriff Tom
McCartney, Mr Tang recounted that at around 11:15pm on the night,
he swiftly grasped the cooking implements after coming face-to-face
with the man's firearm – which he would later learn was
an imitation, made up of two metal poles and a piece of wood in
order to resemble a shotgun.
