In just a few minutes, the two men stole more than £900 worth of cigarettes from an Essex shop. They've now been sentenced to a combined 11 years in prison.
CCTV footage shows the moment two men held up a service station with a fake pistol and a knife - before fleeing with more than £900 worth of cigarettes just two minutes later. Jack Knight, 44, and Grant Bolden, 39, were captured on CCTV entering the shop in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, at 10.35pm on 27 September last year. The two men have been sentenced to a combined 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery.
Officers then found incriminating messages on their phones. More from Sky News:King Charles discusses cancer treatmentPM vows to appeal as Rwanda plan suffers setback Texts on a phone attributed to Bolden offered packets of cigarettes for sale, with one message reading: 'I want £300 for them all. For 44 packs that's a bargain.
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