The venues targeted in recent Hawke's Bay robberies are now the most common type, as the "professional robber" - those who targeted banks, financial agencies, and jewellers - was a thing of the past. They're normally stupid and uneducated, normally very young, and normally with very little experience." "They're acting as stars in their own movie," he said, "and then they're the stars in their own court case, and the stars in their own prison cells." Commonly, most armed robberies involved more than one perpetrator, as "it gives them courage". - Hawkes Bay Today

Source: New Zealand Herald August 29, 2016 07:07 UTC