Boxer jailed for terrifying armed raid on garage; Aaron Thomas robbed the Spar filling station at Rhos on Sea.
Byline: GLYN BELLIS
filling station at Rhos on Sea pounds pounds 55KK AATT TTAABBLLEESS EEAARRLLIIEERR it as an a good was another boxing to uk BOXER Aaron Thomas was last night jailed for six years for a terrifying knifepoint knife·point
n.
The sharp end of a knife.
Idiom:
at knifepoint
Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. hold-up of a garage.
Thomas, 29, had denied robbing the filling station and Spar store at Rhos on Sea of pounds 12,000 last May.
Prosecutor Simon Medland had told the jury that the welterweight, who was in the Wales squad for the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth games, series of amateur athletic meets held among citizens of countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. Originated (1930) as the British Empire games, the series is held every four years and is patterned after the Olympic games; women have participated in Melbourne, made a "crucial error" when he raided the garage wearing a distinctive motorbike crash helmet and dark clothing.
CCTV
CCTV
abbr.
closed-circuit television
CCTV closed-circuit television had recorded a tattoo on the back of his neck with the initials SB - those of his fiance, the prosecutor said. The jury heard Thomas, of The Orchards, Rhos on Sea, had lost pounds 5,300 in a casino hours before the robbery.
Mickey Thomas The boxer is the son of Mickey Thomas, who played football for Wales, Wrexham and Manchester United.
Jailing Thomas, Judge Hughes told him: "I'm quite satisfied that when you entered the shop about 7am on May 30 you did so because you had only just lost a substantial amount of money by gambling it away on the roulette tables of that casino in Stockport.
"You were in those circumstances desperate for money." He had terrified ter·ri·fy
tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies
1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten.
2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. two workers in the raid.
The shop manageress had told the court it was just after 7am when she saw the man enter the shop.
She said: "He was dressed all in black and I could see he had something in his right hand.
"Then he said 'Give me the money'. I thought this was some kind of joke but he swung round and I saw he had a large knife in his hand.
"He told the other worker to lock the door and marched us to the office where he told me to open the safe. He said: 'No funny business or I'll use this (the knife).' "The safe has a time delay and takes five minutes before opening. He made me stay on the floor while he paced up and down in the stockroom.
"He was very aggressive and very agitated ag·i·tate
v. ag·i·tat·ed, ag·i·tat·ing, ag·i·tates
v.tr.
1. To cause to move with violence or sudden force.
2. ."
Her colleague said he was terrified when he saw the robber threaten the manageress.
He said: "We were both made to go to the office. He said he would stab us. He was aggressive and irritable."
The jury took three hours and 40 minutes to return a unanimous guilty verdict.
Defence QC Mark Wyeth said: "It's a very curious set of circumstances.
It's apparent, this incident to one side, he doesn't pose a threat to members of the public.
HHEE LLOOSSTT pounds pounds 55KK AATT CCAASSIINNOO TTAABBLLEESS HHOOUURRSS EEAARRLLIIEERR "I invite the court to view it as an isolated incident. He's from a good background."
The judge agreed there was another side to his character. He had a successful boxing career which would likely be brought to an end by his imprisonment Imprisonment
See also Isolation.
Alcatraz Island
former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218]
Altmark, the
German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. .
Mickey Thomas declined to comment after the sentencing.
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