FIVE years ago a gun-wielding masked man tried to rob a lone cashier in a North-East corner shop. Seema Dhutti, 25, bravely fended the would-be robber off at the Darlington store she part-owned, and refused to hand over any cash. She was back at work just hours after the horrifying incident at Seema News and Off-Licence, on the corner of North Road and Cumberland Street, and spoke to The Northern Echo about her ordeal. Despite being visibly shaken, Mrs Dhutti said at the time: “I was sitting behind the counter and one man was outside and I don’t know if he was waiting for something, but he looked through the door and saw I was alone.