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Thieves zap driver with laser and snatch truck and cargo
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DRIVER MICHAEL Osborne was stunned with a Taser gun and dumped by the side of the road as his truck and load were stolen from outside a Birmingham industn al estate last week.
Osborne, who was driving for Felixstowe-based
company Gipping Transport Services, was attempttng to deliver a container filled with pasta that he had collected from Tilbury to an industrial estate in Duddestone Mill Road, Saltley, Birmingham A man dressed as a security guard stopped him just outside the estate and when his back was turned used the Taser gun on him. Osborne was then bundled into a car by four other men and dumped by the side of a nearby road.
The truck was a Renault Magnum pulling a Dennison trailer, and the robbery took place on 3 March. Neither the truck nor trailer had been found as CM went to press and West Midlands Police are investigating.
Mark Fellingham, partner in Gipping Transport, says the violent kidnap happened just a few days after Osborne had returned to work following a prolonged absence due to a bad back. Osborne is shocked but otherwise unhurt.