A robber told staff "I'm a nice guy" after holding up a bookmakers and a pharmacy armed with a length of pipe which he attempted to pass off as a gun.
Sean Clamp silently handed staff a note bearing the words "give me money and no-one will get hurt", while another worker was left so terrified that she fell off her chair. The "career criminal" made less than £100 from the two raids, which were both carried out on the same evening.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Tuesday, that a man wearing a motorbike helmet entered the branch of William Hill at Bootle New Strand shortly before 5pm on July 12 this year. Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, described how Donna McDonald was working in the bookies when he "took out an object she thought was a gun" wrapped in a white plastic bag.
