FIFTY laptop computers worth a total of £17,500 and a £30,000 BMW car were stolen from an industrial estate in Prestwich on Wednesday evening by armed robbers.
The five-man gang burst into a businesses premises on the Mountheath Industrial Estate in Sedgley Park, and threatened a 30-year-old company boss with baseball bats before helping themselves to the 50 computer units, worth £350 each.
They made off in the businessman's BMW Z4. No-one was injured during the robbery which happened at 5.30pm.
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