Starting his shift at three in the afternoon, Ciaran had already decided on how he was going to get back at the owner and it was like it had all be planned out for him with the perfect opportunity having the next three closing shift, it was set to be a busy weekend and Friday was a great start, business was great and no-one caught on to Ciaran's emotional state.
Closing now and Ciaran takes the till trays to the manager office so that he can count and bank the takings and then going to the two change machines to collect the money, Ciaran is then expected to place them in leather deposit pouches and in to a safe. Ciaran completed the actions even going as far as going down to the treasury, but instead of placing it in the safe drop hatch, he tucks the three envelopes containing the days takings in his waist and uses his belt to keep them in place.
Now sat with two of his brothers and the three of them are sat in their mothers shed, its where they smoke, three of them are laughing and joking about what had just happened while counting the money when their mother opens the shed door, they tried to hide the money but that failed so Ciaran bribed his mother with two-hundred and fifty pounds, he promises more money the following two days.
Ciaran wakes early the next morning so that he can head in to the town centre, he has a plan and the first stop is the bank so that he can deposits two-hundred pounds to buy a plane ticket and on the way to the next stop Ciaran searches for flights, finding the perfect flight to Barcelona on a six am Monday, meaning the flight would land at ten am United Kingdom time zone.
As soon as Ciaran lands, he plans to buy a cheap motorbike and travel Europe. His next stop of the day is to a jewellery shop, this was another crucial part of the plan because of the limit on how much cash you can fly, travelling with just over eight and a half thousand pounds your required to declare the money to customs, Ciaran plans to buy as much jewellery so that when he can sell them abroad and boost his funds.
Ciaran starts his shift and acts like it's just another day, not that he is two days in to a three-day robbery and the best part of all this is, the accounts team that have access to the drop safe and are tasked with couniting the weeks takings, start at nine am Monday morning which means that by the time they have a final count it will be at least twelve, one o'clock in the afternoon.
Day two done and the building is closed, Ciaran and the chef leave after Ciaran locks the doors to the entertainment centre from inside and then exits out of the hotel reception, as he walks out of the doors to the main street, he plans to turn right but the spit second before he did Ciaran notices a police officer, Ciaran attempts to turn left instead but there was another officer waiting that side as well.
Mr Fitzgerald asked one of the officers although he knew it was Ciaran, once Ciaran confirms his identity the officer that asked then takes a hold of his left wrist and places him under arrest, the second officer has now taken hold of his right wrist and as the first officer cautions him, he puts his free hand through the backpack Ciaran had on so that when he lets go to take the bag off, he will still have hold of Ciaran and now the second officer starts to take the bag off, when it came to the second strap Ciaran had been so calm that the second officer fell in to a false sense of security where instead of replicating the first officers actions, he allows Ciaran to lower his right arm to the ground so that the bag slides down his arm and that's when the officer lets go.
With only the first officer holding him Ciaran darts left, the officer puts one of his feet forward in an attempt to trip him but Ciaran leaps over and in the process frees himself from the other officer's hold. Ciaran starts to run weighed down and restricted by his clothing and as he his running he can see someone chasing him, first to go was his jacket and as he is taking it off his phone falls from his pocket, Ciaran is wearing black suit trousers and a blue shirt but what made running the hardest was the brand-new Timberland boots.
Catching a glance of who was chasing as he turns the corner, not sure at the time but he didn't think it wasn't a police officer and it wouldn't surprise him as the police gave up chasing him years ago, they got fed up with not having an officer that could catch him.
Taking any turn he could has always worked out best for Ciaran, the less the police can see of him, the harder it is to chase him and though he had no escape planned with both his experience and his ability to process information fast meant that he could plan his escape during the chase.
Lightbulb moment, not only it being a perfect escape route it also offers protection should the police involve police dogs or helicopter in the chase, sharp right and across a dual carriageway, no waiting around and no hesitation as he runs across, luckily it was late at night and the road wasn't busy, Ciaran is in the middle of the road as two police vehicles turn the corner in his direction, the other end of the road are other vehicles approaching him as well, there closing in but that itself is Ciaran adding another false sense of security.
Now fully across the road, Ciaran runs through the carpark to block of flats in front of him and over then fence the other side, at this point now the town centre is lit by blue lights, everywhere Ciaran look except form the route he was going, he believes it is because that route was blocked by the backs of house and separated by a Basingstoke canal which isn't the nicest of waters, perfect as this was what Ciaran was counting on.
Leaping in to the canal and fighting against the soft mud his Timberlands are sinking into, the water is up to his shoulders and is freezing cold on a mid-November night, reach the back garden on the other side and with luck the owner of the property had a canoe on small stilts, this gave Ciaran a gap of just under a foot wide to look under and he could see flash lights walking up and down the canal, other officers are shining their lights in the direction of the back gardens one shining right where Ciaran is, he notices several other police vehicles join the chase and he can see the frustration.
Ciaran waits for the officers to leave which took twenty minutes, he waits a further twenty minutes for safety and once he was confident that the police have started looking elsewhere, after forty minutes they're likely to believe he was able to slip their net, Ciaran stands at starts to look for an opening in the houses, if he is seen or heard and someone reports him to the police, the police will know that to be Ciaran and they will send as many as the can.
Finding a house with a small conservatory on the side of the building, separating their house with their neighbours. Ciaran climbs over the conservatory and turns right which leads to a dead end, beyond that is forestry but it would lead Ciaran out of the town centre and in the opposite direction the police would expect him to go.
As Ciaran comes out of the forestry, he puts his right hand in to his pocket to find a ten-pound note, perfect he said to himself, that will get him home without being seen, Ciaran heads back in the direction of the town centre and as he was walking up the road when he saw a male and female sat outside a B&B having a cigarette, Ciaran walks up to them and asked if he could have a cigarette, he told them he was attacked by a group of boys and stole his stuff before pushing him into the canal.
The woman hands Ciaran a cigarette and a lighter and as he is lights up the woman offers him a hoodie to go home in, Ciaran accepts this offer and hopes it's a bright colour, minutes later the woman appears with a grey hoodie and though you wouldn't call it bright, Ciaran was in dark clothes so grey will work perfectly. Ciaran finishes his cigarette and continues walking back in to town.
By the time Ciaran reached the taxi rank, he had been passed by two police vehicles but he was walking with the hoodie zipped up and the hood over his head. Booking the taxi to a road three down for his mothers and after using two alleyways he climbs through the fence to his mother's back garden, as he is he can see her and his siblings stood in the kitchen talking, the notice him climb through and then start coming out the back door.
Ciaran walks through the back door and after a quick rundown on his police chase and how he escaped, he tells his brothers to start rolling joints while he showers the disgusting water off. Clean and smelling great with fresh clean clothes on, Ciaran heads downstairs and out to the shed, there was a joint ready so Ciaran lights it as he heads to the place where he had hidden the remaining money from the day before and then back out to the shed, he sits down to roll another joint when it hit him, he stands again and starts to look for his mother, he finds her in the living room sweeping at three o'clock in the morning and his heart sinks, he asked his mother if she has told the police he is there, she said she hasn't and as he starts to ask her not to until he leaves when the window and front door shake as the officer's attempt to break through, several officers shouting police and Ciaran's mother starts to scream.
Ciaran reacts running to the back of the house and as he reaches the back door, he could hear other officers shouting police, others shouting open the gate to his brother, his brother has both his hands over the top of the gate and they have him in handcuffs, Ciaran thought about running but remembered he had cannabis in the shed and if they don't arrest Ciaran there, his brother will be arrested for possession so he gave himself up and puts his right hand over the fence, the officers are shouting at him to put his other hand over but he tells them to stop kicking the gate as he is trying to open it.
Ciaran opens the gate and officers flood in, the police place Ciaran under arrest for two counts of theft, escaping lawful custody and possession of a class b substance, officers found one thousand pounds in his pocket and a further two-hundred and fifty under his brother's pillow which the police believe to be stolen from Friday so they seize the money as evidence. It was in the back of the police car that Ciaran found out that it was his mother that reported the theft, they even went as far as to show him the text they received from his mother notifying them of his return.