Robert Danskin claimed he committed the crime to pay a drug debt.
An armed robber whose attempt to hold up a post office was foiled by courageous workers has been jailed for four years and eight months.
His colleagues pulled Danskin’s balaclava off his head, wrestle him to the ground and restrained him there until the police arrived to arrest him. He said: “I repeat what I said after watching the images of the staff who confronted you and stopped you succeeding in this robbery. Ordering him to be supervised for a period of two years and four months following his release from prison, Lord Scott added: “Such a debt does not justify in any way what you did.“Given the nature of your offending, I am of the opinion that you pose a serious risk of harm to the public.
Social media users saw Danskin climbing over the post office counter in an alleged attempt to take the contents of the till. On Wednesday, Ms Chisholm said that following his arrest, Danskin told officers that he wasn’t a “bad person”. She said that he was in debt to drug dealers and was concerned that he and his partner were going to be harmed by them.
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