Police were called to reports of an armed robbery in Wallington at around 5.40pm last night.

Officers arrived at Buy & XChange on Stafford Road to find a victim with a cut to his head.

A police spokesman said the injury is not thought to be serious and the Flying Squad has been informed.

Sukumar Ramaswamy, a shop keeper in Ideal General Store next to the pawnbroker’s said: “A few minutes before I was in front of the shop smoking.

“I didn’t see anything; when I came back in I realised that something had happened.

“Everything was normal for me, it is really amazing; I didn’t hear a sound, nothing.”