A FAST FOOD restaurant manageress was recovering at home today from an ordeal after she was tied up by a robber with a squint.

Police are appealing for anyone who might have seen the thief r who made off with hundreds of pounds after waiting until the manageress was leaving the brightly lit McDonald's Drive Thru' restaurant in Bolton Road, Blackburn at about 1.45am today.

The man waited until the staff had left and manageress, Barbara Mullin, 22, was going to her car when he approached from behind and put his arm around her neck.

"She was forced back into the restaurant where she was forced to open the safe and the takings were stolen," said Detective Sergeant Rob Campbell.

"She thought she felt something sharp stuck in her back but did not see a weapon.

"Her hands and feet were tied with rope and the robber tried to lock her in the restaurant but she managed to free herself and raise the alarm.

"She gave a very good description and said that his most distinctive feature was that he had one eye which looked at you while the other looked all over."

The manageress was taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary and and treated for shock. It was later discovered that one of the tyres on her car had been slashed.

The man was white, 6ft 2in and of stocky build.

He was wearing a woollen hat, dark blue or black thigh length waterproof anorak with two bobble cords hanging from the bottom, which was fastened up to the top with the collar up.

He also had dark trousers, a tatty Blackburn Rovers scarf and dark woollen gloves.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Blackburn police on 01254 678678.

Police are also appealing for witnesses for an attempted theft at a shop in Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn.

A man, known to the shop staff by sight, entered the premises armed with a broken broom handle and demanded cash.

The shop assistant refused to give him money and he fled.

He was white, about 25-years-old, 5ft 7in tall, with short brown-ginger hair, possibly in a skinhead cut, wearing a red jumper and dark trousers.

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