A man held a pregnant Post Office worker at gunpoint just two days after he had tried to rob a bank with the same imitation firearm.
Adam Gilbert told police officers "I give up lad" when they arrested him. He later claimed he had committed the crimes to pay for his own funeral, as he planned on taking his own life.
The 37-year-old, of no fixed abode, has now been jailed for ten-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to two counts of robbery and two counts of possessing an imitation firearm. Gilbert, who has 21 previous convictions for 42 offences, including a knifepoint robbery in 2008, failed to get any money from either attempt.
