QC brands armed raider ‘incredibly inept’
Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday heard how Oliver Nicholson, 20, went into an RS McColl’s shop, wearing a balaclava-type mask and carrying a hammer.
But when he demanded the staff open the tills, the manageress told him: “Oliver, I know it’s you” to which he replied: “It’s not Oliver.”
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Hide AdNicholson, from Buckie Road, Mayfield, Dalkeith, was a regular customer of the store in Main Street, Gorebridge, and had shopped there earlier in the day of his robbery, the court heard.
He pleaded guilty to assaulting Ann-Marie Wilson, demanding money from her and robbing her of a quantity of money on January 30 last year.
Sheriff Deirdre MacNeill QC described the robbery as: “One of the most incredibly inept and incompetent I have ever come across”.
She was even more surprised when Nicholson’s defence solicitor, Graeme Runcie, told her: “I am not instructed to ask for bail”.
Sentence was deferred for report until March 20.