Hands up, give me the sweets - said the boy with the sawn-off shotgun
Lee Glendinning
Friday August 6, 2004
The Guardian
A judge yesterday told Britain's youngest armed robber, aged 12, who attempted to steal sweets and cigarettes bearing a sawn-off shotgun, that he could be facing a custodial sentence.
The schoolboy, who turned 13 last week but cannot be named because of his age, burst into a greengrocers in West Bromwich in May wearing a scarf around his face, a hood over his head and aiming a double-barrelled shotgun at the shopkeeper.
He threw a plastic bag towards the owner, Jasbir Singh Guliani, demanding it be filled with money and cigarettes, Wolverhampton crown court was told. Twenty minutes of CCTV footage revealed the boy threatening Mr Guliani who kept him talking while his son phoned the police. After police arrested him they discovered the weapon was not loaded.
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