A cash deliverer thought his “death sentence had been signed” after a robber burst into a shop with what looked like a black pistol demanding he handed over £80,000.
Ashley Hodson, 38, stormed into the Newton Heath store and threatened to shoot the man delivering cash for an ATM. The quick-thinking shopkeeper locked Hodson and the delivery man in the store while armed police were called.
Hodson, who smirked in his police mugshot, has now been jailed for six years. Justin Hayhoe, prosecuting, told the court that Hodson entered the shop shortly after the cash delivery man, just after 4pm on March 23, immediately becoming aggressive saying "open the f***ing box and give me the money".
