The men began to shout at us to get on the floor and we did so, they then told us to crawl round to the front counter. They then instructed us to lay flat on the ground, we all tried to remain calm and do as they said. I looked up behind me and seen on of the men peering over me, I could only see his eyes through the holes in the balaclava he was staring at me and then he pointed the gun directly towards my face. This was very scary and don’t think that I will ever be able to get the image of his eyes staring at me out of my mind
The robbers made Danielle get up of the ground and open the tills; Danielle was panicking and couldn’t get the till to open. This then made me and Tanya panic too we began to say “Danielle just open the till and give them the money” and “please just give them the money” the robbers then pointed the gun at me and Tanya and told us to keep quiet.
The men didn’t use any names when they spoke to each other they called themselves; “number one”, “number two” and “number three”. When Danielle still couldn’t get the till open the robbers then ask were the keys for the safe where. These are not normally left in the shop at night time but the manager had left them there by accident. Tanya told the men that the keys where in the front door, one of the men jumped over the front counter and went to retrieve the keys.
The robber seen a car outside and began to shout to us asking who it was, he creped back in behind the counter where they all crouched down behind the counter till the car left. The robber known as number one then put the gun to the back of Danielle’s head and dragged her into the office and made her open up the safe.
The man standing over me called number three seemed to be getting very agitated he kept shouting to number one to “hurry up”. When the man in the office got all the money out of the safe they told us to remain laying on the ground and don’t get up till they had left and not to try and follow them. Then they ran out the back door, as soon as they had left I got up and dialled 999 for the police..
It took the police about twenty minutes or more to arrive at KFC, my mum was there before them and she had drove up from Carrickfergus. This was a very traumatic experience that I will always remember. I suffered a lot from what happened to me and I feel that I will never fully recover from this experience or forget it throughout the rest of my life.