{"id":14975,"date":"2019-09-02T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14975"},"modified":"2019-09-02T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:26:11","slug":"penrith-petrol-station-robber-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/penrith-petrol-station-robber-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Penrith Petrol Station Robber Jailed For 9 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenager who robbed a Penrith petrol station worker at knifepoint and then plotted to rob a woman at a cash machine in the town just weeks later has been jailed for almost a decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paul Stuchfield, 19.<\/p><\/div>\n

Paul Stuchfield, 19, was branded a “latter day Fagin” by a judge at Carlisle Crown Court for involving younger boys in terrifying crimes.<\/p>\n

Stuchfield was accompanied by a 15-year-old when he entered the Esso garage shop on Bridge Lane, Penrith, just before midnight on October 13 last year.<\/p>\n

“He produced a three-inch flick knife, threatened the male employee and demanded all the money,” said prosecutor Brendan Burke, who told how the worker was left “nervous and somewhat paranoid”.<\/p>\n

Hooded Stuchfield was handed \u00a3125 cash and, as he and the youth left the store, they grabbed sweets from a shelf.<\/p>\n

Then, on the late afternoon of January 16, Stuchfield and a 14-year-old boy were heard in Penrith’s McDonald’s boasting how they would cover their faces and rob a woman with a knife.<\/p>\n

Less than two hours later, Stuchfield lurked in darkness close to a Barclays Bank cashpoint in the town centre as a blade-carrying 16-year-old accomplice approached a dental nurse from behind while she tried to withdraw cash. As she bravely resisted, she was stabbed and robbed her of belongings. A small knife with a blade bent almost to 90 degrees was recovered from the scene by police.<\/p>\n

The victim, left with lower body puncture wounds, later spoke of an “awful, life-altering incident” which had “scarred me massively”. “To think that a knife has connected with my body and pierced my skin is terrifying,” she said. “Never did I think for one minute that I would be subject to something like this. I’ve never done anything to hurt anyone.”<\/p>\n

Stuchfield, who admitted the garage robbery and was convicted of conspiracy to rob in connection with the ATM attack after a trial, was jailed for nine years..<\/p>\n

Passing sentence, Judge James Adkin told Stuchfield, of Kirkoswald, near Penrith: “Despite your relative youth, you are something of a latter day Fagin, inducing children to commit serious criminal offences with you.”<\/p>\n

*The 16-year-old robber was handed 28 months’ detention in May. The other two boys involved in the criminal conduct have both also since been sentenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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