An Asian housemaid and her friends used axes to rob her ageing employers but they made the mistake of their life when they left the axes at the robbed house. A few days later, they were all captured and the loot was returned to the couple.
The unidentified maid waited for the Saudi couple to fall asleep late night last week before letting her three men of the same nationality into the house in the eastern port of Dammam, Alikhbariya Arabic language daily said on Monday.
The three jolted the Saudi couple out of their bed, tied them up and snatched the key of their wardrobe, which contained their money and jewelry.
“They made away with nearly SR300,000 ($80,000) plus jewelry worth around SR40,000 ($10,600)…but they made a serious mistake by leaving their axes at the house as they carried a tag containing the selling company’s name,” it said.
“A few days later, the maid was caught in the nearby town of Khobar while here friends were later seized with the help of the axe tag.”