Two men questioned over Little Chef raids

Police arrested and questioned two men last week in connection with a series of armed robberies at Little Chef restaurants across the Midlands.

The men, arrested during a dawn raid in Wolverhampton, were released on police bail and are due to return for further questioning in mid-October.

Little Chefs across the Midlands have been targeted, some more than once, in nearly 20 incidents since June 2000.

Staff have been terrorised with chisels, screwdrivers and baseball bats.

Last month two men armed with a plank of wood and a sawn-off shotgun stole £5,000 from the Little Chef on the southbound A46 near Warwick.

Like the other attacks, the offenders struck in the early hours after the restaurant was shut and the workers were preparing to leave.

After being forced to open the safe, one staff member was shut in a freezer and the other in a fridge.

A spokesman said Little Chef took security very seriously and it was doing its best to prevent the raids.