A "desperate" drug addict walked into his local corner shop and robbed the terrified teenager working behind the counter, then ran off and hid in a wardrobe, a court has heard.
Anthony Bentley was tracked down and arrested 45 minutes after committing the robbery, but had already spent much of the cash he'd stolen on heroin. The court heard 49-year-old Bentley had a formidable history of offending including inflicting grievous bodily harm, violent disorder, affray, two dozen burglaries, and two robberies - one of which saw him using a two-foot-long machete to rob a woman.
Ian Wright, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that on the afternoon of April 1 this year Bentley walked into Spencers newsagents in Bush Street, Pembroke Dock - he said the defendant was a regular customer at the store and had actually visited twice that day already, once to buy a bottle of vodka and once to try to use the cashback facility on a bank card.
