Ms Ann-Marie Horan:

When I opened the pharmacy at 9.30 a.m. on the morning of the robbery, a man who was wearing a baseball cap and dragging his foot entered the premises and asked in a strong Dublin accent for a blister plaster. He was acting very strangely, as if he had a broken leg, and I thought he was about to rob me. I was surprised, therefore, when he handed over €5 and left the premises. However, the pharmacy was very quiet at that stage. The school next door holds Saturday classes, but they had not started at that point. It was the same man who robbed the shop because we saw on closed circuit television recordings that one of the robbers was wearing the same unusual running shoes as the man who had entered the pharmacy earlier who had clearly been casing the shop. It was quiet when he first entered. The robbers did not change their plan when they entered the shop at 11.30 a.m. and found that it was very busy. There were four or five customers in the pharmacy and lots of people walking up and down the street outside. The pharmacy is located in a suburb.