A man with drug and mental health issues robbed a local convenience store at knifepoint. Ross Warren shouted at terrified staff to hand over cash after storming into a One Stop store in Cardiff on February 3 this year.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court heard Warren, 32, walked into the One Stop store in Clive Road in Canton at 9.35pm that evening wearing a high-vis vest and trousers, sunglasses, baseball cap, boots, white mask, and disposable gloves. There he shouted at two staff members to "take the f***ing money out of the till" and shoved a bag underneath the plastic dividing screen at the counter.
The court heard Warren, of Neville Street, Riverside, brandished a kitchen knife towards terrified staff, two of whom were behind the screen and began opening the tills and handing over the cash. After receiving around £540 in cash the defendant walked out of the shop as a customer was walking in. The shop door was locked and police were called.
