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05.04.2022 - 20:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Terrifying CCTV footage caught the moment two men armed with a machete ambushed a cash-in-transit guard inside a newsagents. Gordon Hopkins and Anthony Hughes targeted the employee in an early morning attack after he entered Haslingden News in Rossendale to fill the cash machine last September.
He was then attacked by the pair, who were also armed with a large piece of wood, before they quickly escaped in a Volkswagen Golf from the Manchester Road store, with three stolen cassettes totalling £80,000 in cash. It was Lancashire Police who later spotted the same car on the M62, less than an hour later.
Officers from West Yorkshire Police stopped the vehicle in Sowerby Bridge. Hughes ran from the black vehicle and across the live lanes of the M62 as Hopkins, 44, fled into a nearby garden and was seen by a witness stuffing items into a wheelie bin while wearing latex gloves. Recovered from the Golf was £80,000 cash and a cloned number plate used in the offence.
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Hughes, of Coronation Parade, Leeds, and Hopkins of Spen Walk, Leeds, both pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of an offensive weapon. They appeared before Recorder Nicholas Clarke QC at Burnley Crown Court on Friday (April 1) where they were both deemed to be dangerous offenders.
Both men were given custodial sentences of 13 years and eight months, with an extended licence period of three years and eight months. Lancashire Police said: "We were called around 8.05am on September 13 to report of a robbery at Haslingden News in Manchester Road, Haslingden. Our investigation revealed that as the security guard entered the shop to
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