Robbed at gunpoint

AN ELDERLY woman was robbed and had what police say was a gun pointed at her in broad daylight.

Police are looking for the offender and his getaway driver after the incident in Browns Bay on Saturday. Detective Darren Attwood of the North Shore CIB says the 77-year-old victim was walking north on the right-hand side of Beach Rd around 11.15am.

‘‘While continuing past the intersection with Carlisle Rd a male approached her from the left side of the road,’’ he says. ‘‘He walked straight up to the victim and demanded her handbag.’’

Mr Attwood

says

the offender presented a metal object and pointed it straight at the woman’s chest when the victim refused.

The object was covered in a black cloth and it appeared to be a gun barrel, he says. ‘‘It was protruding out the end of the cloth.’’

The victim was badly shaken but otherwise unharmed.

Mr Attwood says the offender ripped the woman’s bag from her shoulder and ran back across Beach Rd and got into the passenger side of a waiting vehicle. The vehicle drove north towards Torbay.

Police say the offender is a white man with olive skin in his early 20s. He is tall, clean shaven and of slim build.

He was wearing dark trousers and a black hooded sweatshirt or jacket with the hood up.

The driver of the vehicle was also a white man in his late 20s to early 30s and of a medium build. He has short dark hair with a closely shaven or cropped No 1 haircut.

The car was a brick red older model flat deck ute with a wooden tray on the back.

Police says there was one witness to the incident and are seeking any other people who may have been in the Beach Rd/carlisle Rd area late on Saturday morning.