Police are appealing for information after masked men raided fruit machines at a hotel in Tewkesbury in the early hours of today.
Officers received a report of three men wearing hoodies and masks attacking the machines at the hotel in Church Street shortly before 4.20am.
The men were discovered by staff members who were threatened with hammers. Four fruit machines were destroyed in the incident and all notes and coins taken from them. The exact amount of money taken is not known but believed to be over £1000.
The offenders made off from the scene in a BMW estate car and despite a pursuit involving the roads policing team, cialis sadly managed to get away.
Forensic, CCTV and other inquiries are continuing today but police are urging anyone with information or who witnessed the car or offenders around the time of the incident to call 101, quoting incident 32 of 19 March.