A robber has been jailed for three years after he tried to hold up a shop armed with a cardboard toilet roll tube. Paul McDonald, 48, who was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court this week, stormed the shop and demanded money, while holding what looked like a gun under his jumper.
The frightened teenage cashier, believing that McDonald was gripping a deadly firearm, immediately handed over a small amount of cash to him. McDonald then fled the shop, on Wollaton Street, Nottingham city centre, but the same cashier then gave chase and heroically tackled him to the ground.
And it was only then that McDonald’s lethal weapon was in fact revealed an empty cardboard loo roll. McDonald dropped the cash and ran away again but the police caught him a few minutes later.
