An armed robber who pointed a realistic-looking handgun in the faces of two jewellery shop staff including one in Brighouse has been jailed.
Drug-user Scott Lister was described as looking like “a madman” when he ordered the two women to get on the floor during a terrifying lunchtime raid at the Kingston Jewellers in Halifax last June.
Prosecutor Anne-Marie Hutton told Bradford Crown Court that Lister had grabbed one of the staff by her hair before he and Cochrane smashed display cabinets in the shop and fled with stock worth about £3,800. William Cochrane reversed a black Jaguar car into one of the windows of the shop just as it closing for business on the 30th of June.
It was estimated that stock worth about £20,000 had been stolen during that robbery with damage to the shop put at about £10,000.
Scott Lister was jailed for six years and nine months for the armed robbery in Halifax with a concurrent sentence of four-and-a-half years for the Brighouse ram-raid.
Judge Burn said Lister’s guilty pleas to all the offences were the only thing that saved him from a very long sentence.
Drug Arrests After Police Raid in Allerton
Appeal after serious collision on Vicar Lane in Leeds
Leeds 400 challenge launched to get city moving
Accrington drug dealer jailed for 10 years
Average Speed Cameras Installed on Harrogate Road
Culture at the Heart of Stockport’s Transformation
South Asian Art Exhibition Opens at Cartwright Hall
Men’s Mental Fitness Programme Launches in Blackburn
Council Calls for Tougher Fly-Tipping Sentences
Man Jailed for Raping and Exploiting Vulnerable Teen in Stockport
Legal Show
Alim OnAir
Remix Saturdays
Bhangra Nights