One brave customer chased them away with a brush
Drug-addicted duo, Jonathan Robshaw and Lee Bland, hit mainly convenience stores in the Castleford area in a 21-hour period.
With Bland as a lookout for three of the offences, Robshaw entered each wearing a blue Covid mask and pulled out a large kitchen knife before demanding staff open the tills. Prosecuting at Leeds Crown Court, Helen Chapman said at around 10.25pm on April 19, Robshaw entered the Tesco Express on Churchbalk Lane and demanded cash.When the assistant refused, Robshaw threatened to come round to the till. He was eventually given £50 and six packets of cigarettes.
At 7.10am the next day, he walked into Sainsbury’s on Smawthorne Lane, again he was refused by staff and tried to prise open a till with his knife.He then targeted Coral bookmakers on Carlton Street at 6.25pm that night, with Bland joining him and holding open the door. They fled emptyhanded. Minutes later the pair went to B&M on Albion Street with Bland acting as lookout while Robshaw brandished the knife to staff.
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