A shop assistant taken hostage during an armed £40 million jewellery raid was
“absolutely terrified” and thought she would be shot if anything went wrong,
a court heard today.

Petra Ehnar said that she “expected the worst” as she was led at gunpoint to a
getaway car by two men who had forced her colleagues to the floor of Graff
Diamonds and threatened to shoot them if they did not co-operate, Woolwich
Crown court was told.

As the men made their escape a shot was fired and, Ms Ehnar said, she did not
know if she had been hit.