The victim of an armed robbery, hit twice on the head with a gun, today told about his terrifying ordeal.

Paul Denny, 53, who owns the Harold Garage in Huddersfield Road, Low Moor, was attacked at 12.30pm on Sunday.

Mr Denny, pictured, of Wibsey, said: "Four men just dashed in through the door, wearing balaclavas. One of them had a gun. They kept shouting and screaming at me to hurry up and open the till, but I tried to stall them as long as I could, hoping that somebody would pull up in the forecourt and scare them off.

"I was down on my knees and one robber was breathing down my neck, holding a gun there, but I didn't really have time to be frightened. I just concentrated on doing what they wanted."

The robbers stole cash from his till, but on the way out one of them clubbed Mr Denny twice over the head with a handgun. "It was a black revolver and he struck me on the left side of my head and then at the back of my head," he said. "One eye is now swollen up and I cannot hear anything out of my left ear."

Mr Denny thinks the robbers were quite young. Witnesses who saw them take off their masks in the getaway car driven by a fifth man said three were white men and one was of mixed race or Asian.

Police found the Rover 618 in Buttershaw, Bradford. It had been stolen in Rawdon on Friday.