Below are some of the more serious and dreadful robbery cases to have passed through Sheffield Crown Court recently where victims have included shop staff and elderly people in their own homes.
In some cases, offenders have been armed with a variety of weapons including an imitation firearm, a machete, knives and even a bamboo cane.
Elderly victims who have been targeted in their own homes have also been left traumatised.
But judges have brought the full weight of the law down on these offenders and imposed a range of custodial sentences.
Elderly victims who have been targeted in their own homes have also been left traumatised.
6. Ashley Stocks
Pictured is Ashley Stocks, aged 31, of Greenwood Avenue, near Handsworth Hill, Sheffield, who, accrding to a Sheffield Crown Court hearng in August, tried to exchange two bottles of Budweiser before he attacked the shopkeeper at the Hollinsend Premier store, on Nodder Road, Woodthorpe, Sheffield. Stocks, who has previous convictions, pleaded guilty to the robbery from November 26, 2019. Stocks was sentenced by Judge Rachael Harrison to five-years and four-months of custody and banned from going near the Hollinsend store for ten years. Photo: South Yorkshire Police
8. Lee Whitehouse
Pictured is Lee Whitehouse, aged 22, of Broughton Avenue, Bentley, Doncaster, who was jailed at Sheffield Crown Court for two years after he admitted robbing a woman at a cash machine on May 18 and making off from a petrol station without paying on May 16. Whitehouse snatched the cash from a woman at an Asda store in Doncaster as her three children stood nearby, according to the court. Whitehouse, who has previous convictions, pleaded guilty to the robbery and also admitted making off without paying for fuel at a petrol station at Morrisons, on York Road, Doncaster. He was sentenced in August. Photo: South Yorkshire Police