Thursday 20 January 2022

BREAKING! Employee stabbed in armed robbery in Morpeth

BY DAKOTA TAIT

A man's been wounded during an armed robbery at a Morpeth grocer early Thursday morning.

Three men entered the Swan Street store around 5:15am and began to rob the tills.

A 47-year-old employee challenged the men, and was stabbed.

He's been taken to the John Hunter, suffering wounds to his abdomen.

The three men fled the store in a white sedan.

Police are continuing their inquiries.