World Scene: New Zealand

Robber leaves contact details

A man vying for the title of New Zealand's most incompetent criminal left his name and contact details with a shop before robbing it.

The man - a regular customer of the music shop in the southern city of Christchurch - grabbed handfuls of banknotes from the till with four surveillance cameras trained on him, The Press newspaper quoted the shop's manager Garry Knight as saying yesterday. Just minutes before the robbery on Friday, the man had approached the assistant, saying he wanted a copy of Pink Floyd's album The Wall held for him. He wrote his name and contact details down for the assistant