POLICE have issued a description of a masked gunman who threatened an attendant before taking cash from the till at an Eastleigh filling station.

IT student, Rajeevan Indrabalan, was completing paperwork at the end of his shift at the Texaco garage in Southampton Road at 5.30am on December 31 when the masked man appeared at the window.

“I could just see his eyes and the gun. He pointed it straight at me and said: ‘Open the door now or I will shoot you’,” said the 23- year-old.

Rajeevan ducked behind the till but the gunman continued to aim his weapon at his head and started to climb through the window.

“He was screaming at me to open the door, saying he would count to 10 and then shoot me,” said Rajeevan, who lives at Derby Road, Eastleigh. “I was scared. I thought I was going to die.

“I didn’t know what to do when he started trying to get in so I ran out the back to the office and locked myself in and called the police.

“I just kept thinking what would happen if he got in,” added Rajeevan, who has been working at the garage for less than a month.

CCTV footage showed the man getting halfway through the window, reaching into the till and then leaving.

The gunman was about 5ft 9in, of slim to medium build and wearing white trainers and a long-sleeved T-shirt with grey jogging bottoms. He also wore black gloves and a balaclava.

Detectives would like to speak to anywho used the filling station at around that time on December 31. Anyone with information is asked to call Eastleigh CID on 101.