A woman threatened a shopkeeper with an imitation firearm after she was caught shoplifting. The weapon was described as looking like a small black handgun.
Natalie Price, 38, attended the Londis store in Newport on February 4 last year when she was spotted stealing a bottle of wine by Niruban Thirumuruhan. He told her to leave the shop but she returned later that day brandishing the weapon.
A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court heard the defendant took the firearm from her rucksack and brandished it around the store before leaving. She was arrested the same day by police at her home in Scott Close, Gaer, and made full admissions.
