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Former Royal Navy man fights off armed robbers with war cry

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john everettJohn Everett, a former Royal Navy seaman, fought off two armed raiders with their own crowbar in his Cambridgeshire post office after screaming a war cry at them.

The 67 year-old launched his attack at the robbers after they stormed into his post office.

Mr Everett, who served for 22 years in the Royal Navy, runs the store with his wife Patricia.

He said he "just switched to automatic" as he grabbed the crowbar and shouted at the stunned men at the top of his voice.

"My military training just kicked in. I shouted a warcry, a loud shout that took them by surprise. You shout very loudly and step into their space and open your eyes very wide at theirs - they don't like it.

"Hopefully I gave one of them a real shock and a sore arm."

Mr Everett was alone behind the Post Office security glass when the men struck at his post office store at Wisbech on Tuesday.

"That gave me room for action. The customers had left and I was doing the daily checks, when bang, bang, this fellow appeared and smashed the security glass with a two-foot long crowbar," he said.

"Like a car windscreen, glass went everywhere - it went off with quite a bang. He hit the glass a number of times, and while he did that, I hit the alarm. I put some things aside so he could not reach them.

"I took the crowbar off him and hit him with it. That man shouted to the other man standing behind with a baseball bat and they left.

"I had managed to knock a lot of contents of the till on to the floor, so they didn't get away with that much. They only got the minimum amount, it was postage stamps and cash."

The criminals fled in a blue 4x4 Jeep later dumped in a river at nearby Gorefield. The Everetts have now suffered three raids since they took over the Post Office six years ago.

Source:Telegrapg.co.uk

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