A robber pulled a knife on a Good Samaritan shop customer who tried to stop her partner stealing.
Patricia Hymers and Ryan Reynolds had brazenly packed a bag with items and were leaving without paying when they were challenged by staff and customers sought to intervene. When one man grabbed Reynolds, Hymers brandished a blade at him to force him to let him go.
The serial criminal, who has 135 previous convictions, carried out her latest offence at the Shell garage shop, on the Gateshead side of the Redheugh Bridge, on May 21 this year.
