A 71-year-old grandfather proved to be tougher than would-be robbers expected, putting up a fight to protect his Ashfield convenience store when it was attacked by men with machetes last Friday night.
Theo Zagoridis was working in his shop on the main street in Ashfield, in Sydney’s inner-west, when two men entered the premises at approximately 8.40 pm and threatened him with their weapons.
“They said ‘give me your money’. I thought it was a joke, I told them to bu***r off,” Mr Zagoridis said.
A defiant Mr Zagoridis refused to give in to their demands, and accosted the man holding the machete to prevent him from wielding it, wrapping him in a ‘bear hug’.
“I grabbed him so he couldn’t swing his arms and the other man, the look out, came behind me and pulled my arms and then they just took off,” he told Nine News.
Two men, believed to be working with the pair who attacked Mr Zagoridis’ Sunny’s Grocery store, also entered a convenience store on Alt Street, just opposite the scene of the crime.